56% of Americans support more regulation of major technology companies
A majority of Americans (68%) believe major technology companies have too much power and influence in the economy.
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A majority of Americans (68%) believe major technology companies have too much power and influence in the economy.
Roughly half of Americans say that they have been getting some (30%) or a lot (18%) of news and info about COVID-19 vaccines on social media.
Here are some key takeaways for how the public engaged with Team USA on Twitter during the Tokyo Olympics.
Some 49% of U.S. adults say Donald Trump’s accounts should be permanently banned from social media, while half say they should not be.
Republican lawmakers have produced three-quarters of recent congressional social media posts that mention places and people in Asia.
About half of U.S. adults say they get news from social media “often” or “sometimes,” and this use is spread out across a number of different sites. Facebook stands out as a regular source of news for about a third of Americans.
41% of U.S. adults say people should be able to sue social media companies for content that other users post on these companies’ platforms.
Social media activity by members of Congress changed in notable ways following the rioting at the Capitol by supporters of President Trump.
A new study of posts on popular public Facebook pages about the early days of the Biden administration finds that the focus of these posts, as well as the assessments of the new president, differed widely by the ideological orientation of the pages.
Voting members of the 116th Congress collectively produced more than 2.2 million tweets and Facebook posts in 2019 and 2020.
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