How Americans feel about ‘cancel culture’ and offensive speech in 6 charts
Here’s a look at how adults in the United States see cancel culture, political correctness and related issues, based on the Center’s surveys.
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2. The political content in users’ tweets and the accounts they follow
In addition to surveying users about their experiences on Twitter, researchers from the Center also examined the actual on-site behaviors of a subset of users from this representative panel of U.S. adults who provided their Twitter handles for research purposes. This analysis involved two separate data collections and analyses. First, researchers collected every public tweet posted […]
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News Use Across Social Media Platforms in 2020
About half of U.S. adults say they get news from social media “often” or “sometimes,” and this use is spread out across a number of different sites. Facebook stands out as a regular source of news for about a third of Americans.
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Methodology
To conduct this analysis, researchers collected every Facebook post and tweet created between Sept. 8, 2016 and Dec. 8, 2016, and Sept. 3, 2020 and Dec. 3, 2020, by any accounts managed by every voting member of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. Researchers used the Facebook Graph API, CrowdTangle[2. numoffset=”2″ CrowdTangle is a […]
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Appendix: Changing measurements of news consumption on social media
This year’s edition of Pew Research Center’s annual study of how Americans use social media sites for news asks about similar topics in different ways from previous years. The Center’s experts made changes this year to improve measurements of news consumption on social media. Those changes are described below. Accordingly, these measures should not be […]
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How we built our data science infrastructure at Pew Research Center
After venturing into the world of computational social science in 2015, the Center needed to develop new tools and workflows.
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Online harassment occurs most often on social media, but strikes in other places, too
Three-quarters of U.S. adults who have recently faced some kind of online harassment say it happened on social media.
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About this canvassing of experts
This report covers results from the 14th “Future of the Internet” canvassing by Pew Research Center and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center. Participants were asked to respond to several questions about the tone and impact of the online environment and the trajectory of activities in the digital public sphere that have recently been raising […]
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Republicans, Democrats at odds over social media companies banning Trump
Americans are more likely to support than oppose banning Donald Trump’s social media accounts, but views are divided along political lines.
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Americans with disabilities less likely than those without to own some digital devices
The digital divide between Americans who have a disability and Americans who do not remains for some devices.
