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Persuading Through Media Bias With News Diffusion

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  • Bartosz Redlicki

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I analyze persuasion in a model in which a media outlet with a partisan motive (i.e., to persuade agents) can report news with a partisan bias (“slant”) and the news then diffuses sequentially in a population of biased (in the same direction as the media outlet) and unbiased agents, whereby each agent decides whether to share the news with the next agent or not. I find that the slant is increasing in the bias of the biased agents and in the agents' tendency to meet similar others. I also discuss two variants of the model: one in which there is no diffusion and another in which the media outlet has a pure diffusion motive rather than a partisan motive.

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  • Bartosz Redlicki, 2025. "Persuading Through Media Bias With News Diffusion," Journal of Public Economic Theory, Association for Public Economic Theory, vol. 27(6), December.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jpbect:v:27:y:2025:i:6:n:e70073
    DOI: 10.1111/jpet.70073
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