As the 2022 campaign draws to a close, here’s how federal, state and local candidates have used Twitter
One-in-five federal, state and local candidate tweets in 2022 have mentioned race, abortion, education or the economy.
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One-in-five federal, state and local candidate tweets in 2022 have mentioned race, abortion, education or the economy.
Across 27 countries surveyed, people generally see social media as more of a good thing than a bad thing for democracy.
Americans support banning TikTok by a more than two-to-one margin, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.
71% of adults say they are very or somewhat concerned about how the government uses the data it collects about them, up from 64% in 2019.
About six-in-ten Americans (59%) see TikTok as a major or minor threat to national security in the United States.
61% of U.S. adults say they have heard at least a fair amount about the phrase “cancel culture,” up from 44% in September 2020.
Most Americans say the U.S. government and technology companies should each take steps to restrict false information and extremely violent content online.
74% of Republicans say social media has been more of a bad thing for U.S. democracy, compared with a smaller majority of Democrats (57%).
About one-in-ten U.S. adults have heard of Gab, an alternative social media site, and 1% say that they get news there regularly.
The U.S. public’s views of banks and other financial institutions, as well as large corporations, have become much more negative recently.
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