Key facts about Gab
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.
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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.
BitChute is a video-sharing site and an alternative social media platform; here are key facts about the site and its users.
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.
While 38% of U.S. adults say they have heard of Parler, just 1% of Americans regularly get news there.
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.
The total number of journalists assigned to state capitol buildings is up 11% since 2014, though figures vary widely by state. And as newspapers employ fewer statehouse reporters, nonprofits are filling much of the void.
Videos from independent news producers are more likely to cover subjects negatively and discuss conspiracy theories.
Younger U.S. adults were better than their elders at differentiating between factual and opinion statements in a survey conducted in early 2018.
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