From viewers to voters: Tracing Fox News’ impact on American democracy

• This paper provides a comprehensive assessment of the effect of Fox News Channel (FNC) on the mass public’s political preferences and voting behavior in the United States from 2000 to 2020. We show that FNC has shifted the ideology and partisan identity of Americans rightward. This shift has helped Republican candidates in elections across levels of U.S. government over the past decade. Our estimates suggests that an increase of 0.05 rating points in Fox News viewership, induced by exogenous changes in channel placement, has increased Republican vote shares by at least 0.5 percentage points in recent presidential, Senate, House, and gubernatorial elections. Our findings have broad implications for political behavior, elections, and the political process in the United States.

Tasks

• Scan and send off docs to Emilia – done
• More on Trustworthy Information – finished the first pas on research area 1
• Sent dates and times to Ignite

SBIRs

• 11:00 SBIR review – looks like we’ll try to connect wit the TPoC and see if there is any interest. If so, them more proposal writing!
• 1:30 GRL/VRL review – tweaks. Sent out a new version for more comments
• 3:00 Tradeshow demo planning – everything is coming along fine except for the core software development, which is writing proposals instead.
• Made the Phase IIE Overleaf