Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Perhaps no topic divides voters more deeply than the role that firearms have in American life. By overwhelming margins, Joe Biden’s supporters prioritize gun control over gun rights and say gun ownership does more to reduce than increase safety; roughly eight-in-ten Biden supporters (83%) say the increase in guns in the U.S. is at least […]
For our latest survey data about news influencers, read the “News Influencers Fact Sheet.” You are an AI assistant trained to look at social media posts and determine what the post is about. [IF POST IS FROM YOUTUBE:] You will receive two fields: the post title and a transcript of the first 3 minutes of the […]
40% of Black Americans say that the issues and events most important to them are often covered, and similar shares of Asian (38%) and Hispanic (37%) adults say the same.
Most Americans say the minimum age to buy a gun should be raised to 21, though Democrats are more likely to say this than Republicans.
While the number of gun deaths in the U.S. fell for the second consecutive year in 2023, it remained among the highest annual totals on record.
About six-in-ten U.S. adults (58%) favor stricter gun laws. Another 26% say that U.S. gun laws are about right, while 15% favor less strict gun laws.
There’s a fair amount of data indicating that Americans’ driving habits have worsened over the past five years, at least in some ways.
Along with identifying samples of 200 accounts with the largest number of followers on each of seven alternative social media sites, Pew Research Center also collected all of the posts produced by these accounts from June 1 to 30, 2022. (For more details on how this data collection was conducted, see the methodology.) These prominent […]
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.
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