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    2. The ability to classify statements as factual or opinion varies widely based on political awareness, digital savviness and trust in news media

    Overall, some groups of Americans are far better at parsing through news content than others, suggesting gaps in the public’s competence. Most prominently, Americans’ familiarity with politics and the digital world bleeds into how they understand statements in the news. Those with high political awareness (those who are both knowledgeable about politics and regularly get […]

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    1. Across 39 countries, three-quarters say they use the internet

    Access to the internet is considered so vital that in 2016 the United Nations passed a nonbinding resolution to make disruption of internet access a violation of human rights. And while governments and private companies are working to increase access to the internet the world over, many in emerging and developing countries remain non-internet users. […]

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    1. RBS and RDD polls yield broadly similar pictures of the public’s mood

    CORRECTION: (May 6, 2019): In the third chart of chapter 1 of the report, the words “RBS” and “RDD” were reversed in the original title. The title has been corrected to read, “Registered voters from RDD were slightly more conservative than those from RBS.” Changes did not affect the report’s substantive findings. Commercial voter files are […]

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    How People Approach Facts and Information

    People deal in varying ways with tensions about what information to trust and how much they want to learn. Some are interested and engaged with information; others are wary and stressed.

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    3. Views of the parties, Congress

    The Democratic Party holds sizable advantages over the Republican Party on a number of major issues, ranging from the environment to foreign policy, as well as immigration and health care. But the GOP now enjoys a 9-percentage-point advantage over the Democratic Party on the economy (45% to 36%) – a significant shift from October, when […]

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    1. Views on the state of gender and leadership and obstacles for women

    A majority of Americans would like to see more women in leadership positions in business and politics, but many are skeptical that there will ever be gender parity in these positions, even as more women move into management roles and run for office. The public largely says it’s easier for men than it is for […]

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    3. Fifty-fifty anecdotes: How digital life has been both positive and negative

    A number of these experts wrote about both sides of the story, taking the time to point out some of the ways in which digital life is a blessing and a curse. A selection of these mixed-response anecdotes follows. James M. Hinton, an author, commented, “Having grown up in the pre-internet era, my childhood was […]

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    2. The negatives of digital life

    There were considerably fewer complaints about the personal impact among these expert respondents. But their own lives and observations give testimony that there are ways in which digital life has ill-served some participants. The following anecdotes speak to the themes that the internet has not helped some users’ well-being. If someone would have told me […]

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    1. The positives of digital life

    The greatest share of participants in this canvassing said their own experience and their observed experience among friends is that digital life improves many of the dimensions of their work, play and home lives. They cited broad changes for the better as the internet revolutionized everything, from the most pressing intellectual and emotional experiences to […]

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