Negative Sentiment Surrounding Politics Differs in News vs. Social Media, Our Analysis Shows

News media perceives socialists more positively than conservatives or liberals.

Liberal, conservative, and socialist political parties are all viewed far more negatively on social media than by news outlets.

Our MarketPsych MCP Radar was connected with Claude to create a chart comparing how much negative sentiment liberal, conservative, and socialist political parties receive from news outlets vs. on social media.

Liberals are viewed far more negatively than conservatives, and slightly more negatively than socialists, on social media. In contrast, while liberals also receive the greatest amount of negative news sentiment, socialists received the lowest amount of negative news sentiment, and conservatives land in the middle.

Volume: 696,802 sentences across 590,662 articles and posts (73,381 news sentences / 37,587 articles; 623,421 social sentences / 553,075 posts). Up from 498,647 in April, partly from the DSA news surge.