Elisa Shearer

U.S. adults in this group are less likely to get the facts right about COVID-19 and politics and more likely to hear some unproven claims.

Some 61% of U.S. adults say they follow COVID-19 news at both the national and local level equally, and 23% say they pay more attention to local news.

After three months of news and information, 64% of U.S. adults say the CDC mostly gets the facts about the outbreak right; 30% say the same about President Trump and his administration.

Among black Americans, 72% say coverage has been good or excellent and 85% say Trump’s message has been completely or mostly wrong.

People in this group are most likely to say the outbreak has been made too big of a deal and journalists have been exaggerating the risks.

61% give equal attention to national and local coronavirus news.

As the U.S. enters a heated 2020 presidential election year, Republicans and Democrats place their trust in two nearly inverse news media environments.

Getting news from social media is an increasingly common experience; nearly three-in-ten U.S. adults do so often.

One-in-five U.S. adults often get news via social media, slightly higher than the 16% who often do so from print newspapers.