Amy Mitchell

Immigration was one of the five topics most covered by 25 major news outlets in the first 60 days of the Biden administration.

We asked U.S. adults whether they consider each of 13 different news outlets to be a part of the mainstream media or not.

While Fox’s audience spans ideologies on the right, its new challengers attract mainly conservatives.

Americans inhabited different information environments, with wide gaps in how they viewed the election and COVID-19.

About half of U.S. adults say they get news from social media “often” or “sometimes,” and this use is spread out across a number of different sites. Facebook stands out as a regular source of news for about a third of Americans.

Partisans differ on whether social media companies’ decisions had a major impact on the election.

As news outlets morph and multiply, both surveys and passive data collection tools face challenges.

Biden supporters are more likely than Trump supporters to be confident their news sources will make the right call in announcing a winner. And partisans remain worlds apart on how well the U.S. has controlled the coronavirus outbreak.

Among Republicans, opinions about the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. differ considerably by source of news.

About two-thirds of Republicans say the U.S. has controlled the outbreak as much as it could have; 88% of Democrats disagree.