"However, as explained above, the effects during March and April coincide with the period during which President Trump supported social distancing and lockdown measures. Moreover, if we split the ZIP codes into terciles based on the voter share for the Republican party during the 2016 elections, we find large and significant Fox News effects within the most Democrat-leaning areas."
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[ 53.2 ms ] story [ 408 ms ] thread"However, as explained above, the effects during March and April coincide with the period during which President Trump supported social distancing and lockdown measures. Moreover, if we split the ZIP codes into terciles based on the voter share for the Republican party during the 2016 elections, we find large and significant Fox News effects within the most Democrat-leaning areas."
Link to paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3600088