46% of U.S. social media users say they are ‘worn out’ by political posts and discussions
Well before the 2020 election, many U.S. social media users are already exhausted by how many political posts they see on these platforms.
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Well before the 2020 election, many U.S. social media users are already exhausted by how many political posts they see on these platforms.
Although most national officials use the platform, their posts receive only a small number of likes and retweets.
Using public opinion surveys and large-scale data analysis, we have studied the content on YouTube and how the U.S. public engages with it.
Republican and Republican-leaning adult Twitter users are more likely than Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents to follow Trump.
Photos that exclusively show men make up the majority of photos that show people; representational differences persist across topics
The media landscape was upended more than a decade ago when the video-sharing site YouTube was launched. The volume and variety of content posted on the site is staggering. The site’s popularity makes it a launchpad for performers, businesses and commentators on every conceivable subject. And like many platforms in the modern digital ecosystem, YouTube […]
Our first study of Twitter behavior based on a representative sample of U.S. adult users explores Americans’ use of the platform.
Twitter users are younger, more likely to identify as Democrats, more highly educated and have higher incomes than U.S. adults overall.
An estimated two-thirds of tweeted links to popular websites are posted by automated accounts – not human beings.
On Twitter, suspected bots are far more active in sharing links to news sites focusing on nonpolitical content than to sites with a political focus.
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