Most Americans (54%) continue to say the US government is doing a poor job preventing the spread of Covid-19, according to a new CNN Poll conducted by SSRS. And, while a growing share of the public feels the worst of the outbreak is behind us (44%, up from 17% in […] Read more »
Americans Struggle to Navigate COVID-19 ‘Infodemic’
The novel coronavirus pandemic has spawned what the World Health Organization is calling an “infodemic,” an overabundance of information — some of it false — about COVID-19. Americans divide evenly over whether it is harder or easier to be well-informed about the coronavirus because of easy access to a wide […] Read more »
Worsening Economic Numbers Belied By Irrational Exuberance
… Partisanship drives irrational exuberance. Whether (or not) you believe in a fast recovery depends on your political stripes. Indeed, 58% of Republicans believe that there will be a fast recovery, while only 32% of Democrats think the same. CONT. Clifford Young, Ipsos The OPINION TODAY email newsletter is a concise daily rundown […] Read more »
Fake Claims of Fake News: Political Misinformation, Warnings, and the Tainted Truth Effect
… Our research contributes to the relatively understudied topic of the tainted truth effect. We extend social cognition research on the tainted truth effect to a political setting, where post-event misinformation and information is presented in the form of political news. We first ask, after viewing a political event, how […] Read more »
Californians’ Views Towards President Trump Shape COVID-19 Attitudes
The latest Berkeley IGS Poll finds that Californians’ views towards President Trump are a powerful predictor of their attitudes towards COVID-19. Californians who either strongly approve or disapprove of the way that President Trump is handling his job have dramatically different opinions on the risks posed by COVID-19 to themselves […] Read more »
Destroying trust in the media, science, and government has left America vulnerable to disaster
For America to minimize the damage from the current pandemic, the media must inform, science must innovate, and our government must administer like never before. Yet decades of politically-motivated attacks discrediting all three institutions, taken to a new level by President Trump, leave the American public in a vulnerable position. […] Read more »