moral foundations in reader reactions

It is widely believed that political news is often slanted to suit news publishers' ideology. Politically slanted news can influence its readers to focus on different aspects of contentious social and political issues and hinder effective discussions.  To identify political slants in news and their influence on readers, we analyze Election-related news and user response to the news on Twitter. We collect Election-related news from six mainstream US news publishers covering the 2020 US Presidential Elections. We compute news publishers' political slants based on the favorability of news towa

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