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    8. News influencers on TikTok

    News influencers on TikTok stand out from other sites for having a smaller gender gap and being more balanced in political leanings.

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    6. News influencers on Facebook

    Far more of the site’s news influencers explicitly identify with the political right than left, and two-thirds are men.

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    Views of all-day school cellphone bans

    Weekly Roundup The latest findings from Pew Research Center · Subscribe ↗ From our research The number of democracies with a constitution that is harder to amend than the U.S. founding document.

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    Appendix B: Typology group creation and analysis

    Pew Research Center’s 2026 political typology divides the public into nine groups. The assignment of individuals to one of the nine groups is based on their responses to 30 questions about social and political values. The table below lists the items used in the construction of the typology groups. Items included in the typology construction […]

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    Order and Opportunity Left

    Economically liberal positions with moderate stances on immigration and concerns about safety and crime Order and Opportunity Left are the largest group in the political typology, making up 18% of the American public. They generally support a larger federal government with more services and are critical of some aspects of the economic system. But they […]

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    Unconventional Right

    Conservative on immigration and culture, but they break from those to their right on some other key issues Unconventional Right are a Republican-oriented group with conservative values in many areas – but not across the board. Largely supportive of restrictions on immigration and concerned about its impact on the country, they are also skeptical of […]

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    Which Americans are most likely to have spoken with a local journalist?

    The Briefing ☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story NPR on Tuesday posted and retracted a story that incorrectly reported Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was retiring. Veteran journalist Nina Totenberg, who wrote the article, said she mistakenly believed a court announcement about upcoming retirements referred to Alito. The story was published for only a few […]

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    Few Americans pay for news when they encounter paywalls

    ☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story Zohran Mamdani is the apparent winner of this week’s Democratic primary for New York City mayor, and some are connecting his success to his viral videos and use of new media. Mamdani has […]