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Just good for one side. this is what president obama is getting at. if you think of fox news as just kind of putting a thumb on the scale for republicans, you know, its that, but its not only that. i think its bad for democracy because it actually matters a lot if trump voters during the trump presidency think that trump is doing a great job or just kind of a good job because if voters dont learn when politicians on their side mess up, then theres no one to hold politicians accountability. so it...

Viewers to get a realistic picture of the world we need viewers to see all types of information and unfortunately what we find in the study is that the viewers dont want to engage in watching all sides. so as david mentioned, we see that viewers -- we pay them for four weeks to watch cnn, but then after those payments stop they go back to watching fox news. even though we try to incentivize viewers to watch both fox and cnn they dont want to engage in that hard work, they want to really just wat...

Is fox viewers are in the dark about bad news for the gop. >> thats right. fox and cnn cover different issues and fox news predominantly covers issues that make the gop look good and make democrats look bad. on the flip side cnn engages in this partisan coverage filtering as well. for example, during this time the abraham accords were signed and the agreements where israel, the uae and bahrain signed a major piece agreement. fox news covered this major accomplishment 15 times more than cnn did. ...

They had just had access to a different set of information. i think we underestimate the degree of plyability in our opinions, in our views. >> david, is that the proper take away here? is obama right? >> yeah, i think that gets at a really important finding of our study which is that, first of all, president obama is exactly right, we are not finding that you take fox viewers and all of a sudden overnight they become biden voters. that wasnt the goal of our study and we werent expect to find th...

Predominantly watched fox news up until september 2020 and in september 2020 we paid them to watch cnn instead, at the time at which they usually watched fox news. afterwards we asked them a variety of questions about what they knew about the world and their attitudes about current events and people like donald trump. that was during the trump presidency of course. the real key finding from our perspective is essentially that we find that partisan media is hiding information from voters. i think...

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