This study examines the impact of news coverage of the 2016 presidential election on individual perceptions and behavior among young Taiwanese from a third-person effect perspective. Results of a random sample survey found that respondents perceived others to be more influenced than themselves by election coverage. Moreover, this study shows that both news attention and news elaboration significantly predicted the perceived effects of news on both the self and others. Importantly, the results indicate that perceived effects of news coverage on the self were significantly associated with respondents' online and interpersonal discussions, while perceived effects on others were significantly related to their political participation.