Explicit content, time-wasting are key social media worries for parents of U.S. teens
A majority of U.S. parents are keeping a watchful eye on what their teens do on social media; some are also imposing screen time restrictions.
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A majority of U.S. parents are keeping a watchful eye on what their teens do on social media; some are also imposing screen time restrictions.
Americans support banning TikTok by a more than two-to-one margin, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.
74% of Republicans say social media has been more of a bad thing for U.S. democracy, compared with a smaller majority of Democrats (57%).
For this report, Reddit posts and comments were classified using the following prompts to GPT-4.1 mini. The prompts were designed to mirror the codebooks that our research team used to create the validation datasets of human-annotated posts and comments. In the prompt templates below, italics indicate input text that varies based on the post or […]
In recent years, several new options have emerged in the social media universe, many of which explicitly present themselves as alternatives to more established social media platforms. Free speech ideals and heated political themes prevail on these sites, which draw praise from their users and skepticism from other Americans.
While 27% of U.S. adults say they have heard of Telegram, only 2% use the alternative social media app for news.
The landscape of social media is ever-changing, especially among teens who often are on the leading edge of this space. A new survey of American teenagers ages 13 to 17 finds that TikTok has established itself as one of the top online platforms for U.S. teens, while the share of teens who use Facebook has fallen sharply.
We examine how an opt-in poll may have unintentionally misled the public about the sensitive issue of Holocaust denial among young Americans.
Most TikTok users see news-related content on the platform – but much of it comes through influencers or celebrities, not journalists.
The American Trends Panel survey methodology Overview The American Trends Panel (ATP), created by Pew Research Center, is a nationally representative panel of randomly selected U.S. adults. Panelists participate via self-administered web surveys. Panelists who do not have internet access at home are provided with a tablet and wireless internet connection. Interviews are conducted in […]
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