[PDF] fox news misinformation statistics 2018

How does Fox misinform viewers?

Media Matters has documented numerous examples of Fox engaging in both agenda setting and partisan coverage filtering to misinform its viewers on multiple topics, overwhelming them with lies and omissions that distort their understanding of objective reality.

Are Fox News and Associated Press unbiased?

Republicans said they thought only Fox News and The Wall Street Journal were unbiased, while Democrats felt that way about most mainstream outlets. Overall, survey respondents said PBS News and The Associated Press were the least biased outlets.

Does Fox's disinformation machine skewed news?

In the study’s abstract, authors David Broockman at the University of California, Berkeley and Joshua Kalla at Yale University explained their methodology and results, in which regular Fox viewers incentivized to watch CNN instead for a month showed major shifts in their understanding of issues routinely skewed by Fox’s disinformation machine.

Is the average Fox News Consumer left or right?

3 On an ideological scale, the average Fox News consumer is to the right of the average U.S. adult, but not as far to the right as the audiences of some other outlets.