Is Journalistic Truth Dead? Measuring How Informed Voters Are about Political News†

被引：2
作者：
Angelucci, Charles [1 ]
Prat, Andrea [2 ]
机构：
[1] MIT, Sloan Sch Management, Cambridge, CA 02139 USA
[2] Columbia Univ, New York, NY 10027 USA
来源：
AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW | 2024年 / 114卷 / 04期
关键词：
PARTISAN BIAS; FALSE NEWS; MEDIA; KNOWLEDGE; PREFERENCES; INFORMATION; PERSUASION; RESPONSES; ONLINE; IMPACT;
D O I：
10.1257/aer.20211003
中图分类号：
F [经济];
学科分类号：
02 ;
摘要：
To investigate general patterns in news information in the United States, we combine a protocol for identifying major political news stories, 11 monthly surveys with 15,000 participants, and a model of news discernment. When confronted with a true and a fake news story, 47 percent of subjects confidently choose the true story, 3 percent confidently choose the fake story, and the remaining half are uncertain. Socioeconomic differences are associated with large variations in the probability of selecting the true news story. Partisan congruence between an individual and a news story matters, but its impact is up to an order of magnitude smaller. (JEL D72, D83, L82)
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页数：39
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