Table 1.
Use of six media (with examples of each) as sources of information in both March (T1) and July (T2) of 2020 and relations with political ideology (unweighted).
| Media use | March 2020 (T1), mean (SD) | July 2020 (T2), mean (SD) | t value of paired difference, T1-T2 | Probability of t value | Correlation over time | Correlation with T1 Conspiracy Belief Index |
| Mainstream television (eg, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News) | 2.94 (1.77) | 2.61 (1.73) | 6.13 | <.001 | .62 | –.18 |
| Conservative media (eg, Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Breitbart News, One America News, The Drudge Report) | 1.49 (1.83) | 1.39 (1.74) | 2.19 | .029 | .71 | .37 |
| Liberal media (eg, MSNBC, Bill Maher, Huffington Post | 1.35 (1.53) | 1.31 (1.51) | 0.69 | .49 | .57 | –.10 |
| Aggregators (eg, Google News, Yahoo News) | 2.00 (1.63) | 1.94 (1.59) | 1.22 | .22 | .54 | .06 |
| Social media (eg, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube) | 1.80 (1.71) | 1.67 (1.63) | 2.23 | .026 | .54 | .16 |
| Mainstream print (eg, Associated Press, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal) | 1.85 (1.75) | 1.80 (1.71) | 2.26 | .026 | .61 | –.28 |