9. News influencers on X (formerly Twitter)
News influencers on the site are more likely to explicitly identify with the political right than left. They’re also much more likely to be men.
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News influencers on the site are more likely to explicitly identify with the political right than left. They’re also much more likely to be men.
YouTube news influencers are more likely to explicitly identify with the political right than the left. Few have links to the news industry.
Though political systems vary across the 24 countries surveyed,[1. The 24 countries surveyed include parliamentary republics, presidential republics, constitutional monarchies, federal republics and semi-presidential republics.] citizens in each call for similarly broad changes to government rules and norms. In most countries surveyed, government reform – including calls for transparency, term limits and adjusting the balance […]
A majority of Democrats (60%) are highly concerned about press freedoms – about double the share of Republicans (28%).
Almost two-thirds of news influencers are men. And except on TikTok, more influencers explicitly identify with the political right than the left.
As people are exposed to more information from more sources than ever before, how they define and feel about “news” has become less clear-cut.
News influencers on TikTok stand out from other sites for having a smaller gender gap and being more balanced in political leanings.
On TikTok, Americans often follow people who have a strong social media presence. These creator accounts make up about half of all accounts that U.S. users follow.
Today, nearly all U.S. teens (96%) say they use the internet every day. And the share of teens who report being online “almost constantly” has roughly doubled since 2014-2015 (24% vs. 46%).
Editorial note to readers A version of this study was originally published on June 10. We previously used the term “racial conspiracy theories” as an editorial shorthand to describe a complex and mixed set of findings. By using these words, our reporting distorted rather than clarified the point of the study. Changes to this version include: an […]
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