As part of our polling, I track attitudes across platforms (and have done so since the start). From our latest poll...
Trump approval:
X: 55/45 (+10)
Everyone else: 38/61 (-23)
ICE favorables:
X: 45 fav/53 unfav (-8)
Everyone else: 33/63 (-30)
Trump approval by news platform in January:
X: 55/45 (+10)
TikTok: 34/63 (-29)
Facebook: 45/53 (-8)
YouTube: 43/56 (-13)
Instagram: 39/60 (-21)
Newspapers/news sites: 33/67 (-34)
ICE favorables by news platform in January:
X: 45/53 (-8)
TikTok: 24/72 (-48)
Facebook: 39/56 (-17)
YouTube: 35/63 (-28)
Instagram: 29/68 (-39)
Newspapers/news sites: 28/71 (-43)
All voters: 35/61 (-26)
So if you're wondering whether this place feels like a bubble...
If you wonder why Bari Weiss is getting blasted for her tenure at CBS, consider this:
Trump approval among broadcast television watchers is 36/64. There's not much of an audience for the center-right Trump-curious intellectuals in this group.
Same logic for Bezos with WaPo.
Anyways, if you find this interesting, we'll have a larger and very unique study on it soon, breaking down news consumption and political attitudes on an N of almost 10,000 voters. theargumentmag.com/subscribe
more strictly defined: "which of the following do you regularly use to get news" is the question
Almost forgot. Here's how our respondents who got news on Reddit looked...
Trump approval: 30/69 (-39)
ICE favorables: 24/74 (-50)
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