70% of U.S. social media users never or rarely post or share about political, social issues
Only 9% of adult social media users say they often post or share things about political or social issues on social media.
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Only 9% of adult social media users say they often post or share things about political or social issues on social media.
Democrats are about 10 percentage points or more likely than Republicans to say they ever use Instagram, Twitter, WhatsApp, LinkedIn or Reddit.
Voting members of the 116th Congress collectively produced more than 2.2 million tweets and Facebook posts in 2019 and 2020.
Roughly half of Americans think social media companies should be regulated more than they are now, our survey found.
Amid the back-and-forth between Twitter and President Trump, here are facts about Americans’ attitudes toward social media companies.
73% of Americans express little or no confidence in tech companies to prevent the misuse of their platforms to influence the 2020 election.
We thought it would be valuable to combine our study of news coverage itself with data on people’s views about, and exposure to, that coverage.
A majority of voters said it is very or somewhat important to them to get messages from the presidential campaigns about important issues.
Some 44% of liberal Democrats say they have used social media in the past year to encourage others to take action on an issue that was important to them. A similar share (43%) have taken part in a group that shares their interest in a cause.
Nearly nine-in-ten voters who followed the 2016 returns (88%) did so on TV, while 48% used online platforms; 21% used social networks such as Twitter and Facebook.
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