Media outlets often present diverging, even conflicting, perspectives on reality — not only informing, but potentially misinforming audiences. We study the extent to which misinformation broadcast on mass media at the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic influenced health outcomes. We...

Since the emergence of partisan cable news networks (CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC) in the mid-1990s, the way many Americans get their political information has changed. Previous research has examined the associations between cable news viewership and individuals' political knowledge, attitudes, and...