We study the formation of a subscription network where a continuum of strategic, Bayesian subscribers decide to subscribe to one of two sources (leaders) for news that is informative about an underlying state of the world. The leaders, aiming to maximize the welfare of all subscribers, have a...

We develop a game-theoretic model to study the subscription choices of subscribers with diverse ideological perspectives between two opposing news media (intermediaries) who are motivated to influence the public opinion through their roles of news verification and selective disclosure. The...