81% of U.S. adults – versus 46% of teens – favor parental consent for minors to use social media
U.S. adults and teens are more likely to support than oppose requiring parental consent for minors to create a social media account.
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U.S. adults and teens are more likely to support than oppose requiring parental consent for minors to create a social media account.
71% of adults say they are very or somewhat concerned about how the government uses the data it collects about them, up from 64% in 2019.
44% of Americans think major technology companies should be regulated more than they are now, down from 56% in April 2021.
About six-in-ten Americans (59%) see TikTok as a major or minor threat to national security in the United States.
41% of U.S. adults say people should be able to sue social media companies for content that other users post on these companies’ platforms.
Some 49% of U.S. adults say Donald Trump’s accounts should be permanently banned from social media, while half say they should not be.
Three-quarters of U.S. adults who have recently faced some kind of online harassment say it happened on social media.
Just one-in-ten Americans say social media sites have a mostly positive effect on the way things are going in the U.S. today.
The digital divide between Americans who have a disability and Americans who do not remains for some devices.
We have studied Americans’ attitudes toward tech companies for years. Here are takeaways from our recent research.
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