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Prominent accounts on Twitter are more likely than those on alternative social media sites to link to print publications, TV and wire services.

Here are key facts about the alternative social media service Rumble, an online video-sharing platform founded in 2013.

While 27% of U.S. adults say they have heard of Telegram, only 2% use the alternative social media app for news.

With Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential bid now officially underway, here are key facts about Truth Social and its users.

One-in-five federal, state and local candidate tweets in 2022 have mentioned race, abortion, education or the economy.

In recent years, several new options have emerged in the social media universe, many of which explicitly present themselves as alternatives to more established social media platforms. Free speech ideals and heated political themes prevail on these sites, which draw praise from their users and skepticism from other Americans.

Here are five facts about political content on Twitter, such as the content and nature of these posts.

Roughly one-quarter of American adults use Twitter. And when they share their views on the site, quite often they are doing so about politics and political issues.

Public concern about addiction is down even in the parts of the U.S. where drug overdose death rates have increased the most.

73% of U.S. adult Twitter users include identifiable text in their profile, but 27% include no text apart from the display and username fields.