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    Methodology

    The American Trends Panel survey methodology Overview Data in this report comes from Wave 168 of the American Trends Panel (ATP), Pew Research Center’s nationally representative panel of randomly selected U.S. adults. The survey was conducted from April 14 to April 20, 2025. A total of 9,397 panelists responded out of 10,559 who were sampled, […]

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    Network News Fact Sheet

    Financially, advertiser expenditures for the news programs of the three major networks have declined substantially since 2020.

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    1. Ten years of #BlackLivesMatter on Twitter

    Along with fielding a survey of public attitudes toward Black Lives Matter, political engagement and activism on social media in general, Pew Research Center also conducted a separate analysis of activity around #BlackLivesMatter on Twitter. The phrase “Black lives matter” first appeared in a July 2013 Facebook post by activist Alicia Garza, following the acquittal […]

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    Key facts about BitChute

    BitChute is a video-sharing site and an alternative social media platform; here are key facts about the site and its users.

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    Black Americans’ Experiences With News

    Black Americans see a range of problems with how Black people are covered in the news. Almost two-thirds of Black adults (63%) say news about Black people is often more negative than news about other racial and ethnic groups. And while few are optimistic that will change in the foreseeable future, many see ways in which that coverage could be improved.

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    How U.S. Adults Use TikTok

    About half of all U.S. adults who use TikTok have never posted a video themselves. And the top 25% of U.S. adults on the site by posting volume produce 98% of all publicly accessible videos from this group. Users who have posted videos are generally more active on the platform than non-posters.

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    3. Internet, smartphone and social media use

    Pew Research Center first started asking about internet use internationally in 2002. Twenty years later, internet use among adults in several countries has increased dramatically. The way people use and access the internet has changed since then, so our question has changed as well. In 2002, we first asked whether people used a computer at […]

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    1. How Americans use and engage with podcasts

    About half of adults in the United States (49%) say they have listened to a podcast in the past 12 months, according to the new survey. This finding follows previous Pew Research Center analyses showing that podcast listening has steadily increased throughout the past decade. One-in-five podcast listeners – which is about 10% of all […]

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