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reportMay 26, 2021

Gen Z, Millennials Stand Out for Climate Change Activism, Social Media Engagement With Issue

Majorities of Americans support an array of measures to address climate change but stop short of a full break with fossil fuels.
reportJul 16, 2020

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This analysis examines a complete set of Facebook posts and tweets created on any account managed by any member of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives between Jan. 1, 2015, and May 31, 2020. Researchers used the Facebook Graph API, CrowdTangle API[9. numoffset=”9″ CrowdTangle is a public insights tool owned by Facebook.] and Twitter API […]
reportJul 30, 2020

4. In addition to lower awareness of current events, social media news users hear more about some unproven claims

Even as Americans who primarily get their political news on social media are less likely to follow most news topics and be aware of specific events in the news, people in this group are as aware – or sometimes more aware – of several unproven claims and fringe theories related to the COVID-19 outbreak. One […]
short readsSep 11, 2020

‘Love’ reaction steadily overcomes ‘anger’ as response to lawmakers’ posts on Facebook

U.S. lawmakers have received roughly 2 million more love than anger reactions to posts in the first seven months of 2020.
short readsJan 22, 2021

Some Americans who have been targeted by troubling behaviors online wouldn’t call it ‘harassment’

43% of those who report experiencing harassing behavior online say that they consider their most recent experience to be “online harassment.”
reportJul 30, 2020

2. U.S. adults who mostly get news through social media lag behind others in attention to election and pandemic news

Along with their demographic distinctions, those whose most common way of getting political and election news is social media also stand out for their relative lack of engagement with a number of major stories in the news. While the coronavirus pandemic and the social unrest in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd […]
short readsJul 13, 2020

Activism on social media varies by race and ethnicity, age, political party

32% of U.S. social media users say they have used these sites in the past month to encourage others to take action on issues.
reportJul 28, 2020

Parenting Children in the Age of Screens

Two-thirds of parents in the U.S. say parenting is harder today than it was 20 years ago, with many citing technologies – like social media or smartphones – as a reason.
reportSep 28, 2020

2. A closer look at the channels producing news on YouTube – and the videos themselves

Complementing the survey results in the previous chapter, this section of the report is based on a different approach to data collection. Rather than asking people about their experiences with news on YouTube, researchers used both computational tools and human coders to examine some of the attributes of the most popular YouTube news channels and […]
reportNov 23, 2020

1. A majority of Americans say they followed election results at least occasionally on election night

About one-third of U.S. adults (36%) say they followed the results of the presidential election almost constantly after polls closed on Election Day, and a similar portion (34%) say they did so fairly often. About two-in-ten Americans (22%) say they checked in occasionally, while far fewer (7%) say they tuned the election night results out […]

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‘Love’ reaction steadily overcomes ‘anger’ as response to lawmakers’ posts on Facebook

Some Americans who have been targeted by troubling behaviors online wouldn’t call it ‘harassment’

Activism on social media varies by race and ethnicity, age, political party

Parenting Children in the Age of Screens

1. A majority of Americans say they followed election results at least occasionally on election night

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