Few Americans are confident in tech companies to prevent misuse of their platforms in the 2020 election
73% of Americans express little or no confidence in tech companies to prevent the misuse of their platforms to influence the 2020 election.
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73% of Americans express little or no confidence in tech companies to prevent the misuse of their platforms to influence the 2020 election.
Only 9% of adult social media users say they often post or share things about political or social issues on social media.
We have studied Americans’ attitudes toward tech companies for years. Here are takeaways from our recent research.
Democrats are about 10 percentage points or more likely than Republicans to say they ever use Instagram, Twitter, WhatsApp, LinkedIn or Reddit.
The share of social media users who say they have changed their views on an issue has increased since we last asked this question in 2018.
Just one-in-ten Americans say social media sites have a mostly positive effect on the way things are going in the U.S. today.
Well before the 2020 election, many U.S. social media users are already exhausted by how many political posts they see on these platforms.
The more confident people are that members of powerful groups behave unethically, the less likely they are to have confidence in that group’s performance.
Many social media users in 11 emerging countries report being regularly exposed to misinformation when using the platforms.
Some 44% of liberal Democrats say they have used social media in the past year to encourage others to take action on an issue that was important to them. A similar share (43%) have taken part in a group that shares their interest in a cause.
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