Anand Chopra, Felix; Haaland, Ingar; Roth, Christopher - 2022 - June 2022 (updated version)
We examine the relative importance of accuracy concerns and belief confirmation motives in driving the demand for news. In experiments with US respondents, we first vary beliefs about whether an outlet reports the news in a right-wing biased, left-wing biased, or unbiased way. We then measure...