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This is a Pew Research Center report from the Pew-Knight Initiative<\/a>, a research program funded jointly by The Pew Charitable Trusts and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Find related reports online at\u00a0https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/pew-knight\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Primary Researchers<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Samuel Bestvater, Senior Data Scientist<\/em>
Athena Chapekis, Computational Social Science Analyst<\/em>
Skyler Seets, Computational Social Science Assistant<\/em>
Sono Shah, Associate Director, Data Labs<\/em>
Aaron Smith, Director, Data Labs<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Team<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Elisa Shearer, Senior Researcher<\/em>
Luxuan Wang, Research Associate<\/em>
Anna Lieb, Computational Social Science Assistant<\/em>
Kaitlyn Radde, Computational Social Science Assistant<\/em>
Sawyer Reed, Research Assistant<\/em>
Sofia Conway, Qualitative Analysis Intern<\/em>
Devin Teehan, Qualitative Analysis Intern<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editorial and Graphic Design<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Peter Bell, Associate Director, Design and UX<\/em>
Anna Jackson, Editorial Specialist<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Communications and Web Publishing<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Sogand Afkari, Communications Manager <\/em> 
Talia Price, Interim Communications Manager<\/em>
Hannah Taber, Communications Manager<\/em>
Janakee Chavda, Associate Digital Producer<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition, the project benefited greatly from the guidance of members of the Pew Research Center Survey Methods, Religion and News & Information teams, including Courtney Kennedy, Andrew Mercer, Scott Keeter, Alan Cooperman, Besheer Mohamed, Chip Rotolo, Katerina Eva Matsa and Neha Sahgal.<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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