Most Americans favor restrictions on false information, violent content online
Most Americans say the U.S. government and technology companies should each take steps to restrict false information and extremely violent content online.
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Most Americans say the U.S. government and technology companies should each take steps to restrict false information and extremely violent content online.
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.
With Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential bid now officially underway, here are key facts about Truth Social and its users.
48% of US adults say the government should restrict false information online, even if it means losing some freedom to access/publish content.
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.
Americans inhabited different information environments, with wide gaps in how they viewed the election and COVID-19.
Most Americans (71%) have heard of a conspiracy theory that alleges that powerful people intentionally planned the coronavirus outbreak.
Americans’ confidence in checking COVID-19 information aligns closely with their confidence in checking the accuracy of news stories broadly.
Here are five facts about how much Americans have heard about the QAnon conspiracy theories and their views about them.
Partisans differ on whether social media companies’ decisions had a major impact on the election.
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