In this week’s FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the team discusses how public opinion on racism has changed over the past few weeks and how this will affect our politics. FiveThirtyEight The OPINION TODAY email newsletter is a concise daily rundown of significant new poll results and insightful analysis. It’s FREE. Sign up here: opiniontoday.substack Read more »
Americans Support Free Speech Online but Want More Action to Curb Harmful Content
As the COVID-19 crisis continues and the debate rages on between Twitter and President Trump over online content moderation, a new report from Gallup and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation found that Americans understand the threat of misinformation to public health and democracy, and want misleading information […] Read more »
Trump 2020 attorney spars with CNN host over presidential poll
The senior legal adviser to President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign on Sunday condemned CNN’s recent presidential poll as “misleading junk science” in a contentious interview on the network. … At the heart of the dispute was a CNN poll released last Monday that showed former Vice President Joe Biden, the […] Read more »
Majorities of Americans Say News Coverage of George Floyd Protests Has Been Good, Trump’s Public Message Wrong
The killing of George Floyd while in custody of Minneapolis police and the protests that ensued across the country have dominated news coverage that had for the past few months been consumed with the coronavirus pandemic. Americans have been following news of Floyd’s death and the demonstrations that followed nearly […] Read more »
Trump’s most loyal media ally promised a pro-Trump poll. It didn’t deliver.
… OAN is a small network, clearly seeking to make its name in part by promising endlessly obsequious coverage of the president. The network has often explicitly asked Trump to watch it instead of Fox, as chief executive Robert Herring did Wednesday. … Herring had on Wednesday pledged an upcoming […] Read more »
Trump Demands CNN Retract a Poll, as OANN Teases a Rosier View
President Trump’s re-election campaign has sued several news outlets for coverage it deemed unflattering. On Wednesday, the president’s team added a new wrinkle to its media intimidation tactics: demanding that a TV network retract a poll it did not like. In an unusual cease-and-desist letter, the Trump campaign called on […] Read more »