Free Media Influences Election Decisions

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Forty-three per cent of US citizens avoid the news, according to the latest Digital News Report a worldwide survey of media use conducted by the Reuters Institute for Journalism at Oxford University .

Most people encounter some news not because of loyalty to a brand or because they actively seek out a preferred outlet, but because it comes at them.

What comes for free is either partisanly motivated, or funded by advertising which means heavy with content pitched to draw eyeballs sensationalism and clickbait.

Mainstream news media was in a crisis of trust from at least the 1970s , long before the internet, let alone Facebook and TikTok .

A recent research paper published in Nature suggests, based on a survey, that fake news and misinformation is not as influential as we may think.

But a narrow, partisan fringe seeks it out, believing content that confirms already hard-set views.

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