Facebook Algorithms and Personal Data
About half of Facebook users say they are not comfortable when they see how the platform categorizes them, and 27% maintain the site’s classifications do not accurately represent them.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
About half of Facebook users say they are not comfortable when they see how the platform categorizes them, and 27% maintain the site’s classifications do not accurately represent them.
66% of social media users have employed the platforms for at least one of eight civic or political activities with social media
Campaign and policy-related material on SNS plays a modest role in influencing most users’ views & political activities. Democrats & liberals are the most likely to say the sites have impact and are important.
18% of users have shunned “friends” who have different ideas and 16% have found friends whose beliefs match their own
More than a quarter of American adults – 26% – used their cell phones to learn about or participate in the 2010 mid-term election campaign.
64% of registered voters received recorded telephone messages in the final stages of the 2006 mid-term election.
More Americans used the Internet to get campaign information in 2002 than during the last midterm election four years ago.
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