81% of U.S. adults – versus 46% of teens – favor parental consent for minors to use social media
U.S. adults and teens are more likely to support than oppose requiring parental consent for minors to create a social media account.
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U.S. adults and teens are more likely to support than oppose requiring parental consent for minors to create a social media account.
About six-in-ten Americans (59%) see TikTok as a major or minor threat to national security in the United States.
38% of U.S. adults say they would support the U.S. government banning TikTok, compared with 18% of U.S. teens ages 13 to 17.
True crime stands out as the most common topic of top-ranked podcasts in the United States.
Americans support banning TikTok by a more than two-to-one margin, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.
Today, 51% of U.S. adults say they support the Black Lives Matter movement – down from 67% in June 2020. A majority of Americans say the increased focus on race and racial inequality in the past three years hasn’t led to improvement for Black Americans.
A new Pew Research Center survey reveals that podcast listening is highly fragmented, and no one podcast dominates.
About six-in-ten Americans (62%) say they follow professional or college sports not too or not at all closely.
PayPal is used by a majority of U.S. adults (57%). Smaller shares report ever using Venmo (38%), Zelle (36%) or Cash App (26%).
A majority of teens say a welcoming, safe online environment is more important than people being able to speak their minds freely online.
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