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    How U.S. Adults Use TikTok

    About half of all U.S. adults who use TikTok have never posted a video themselves. And the top 25% of U.S. adults on the site by posting volume produce 98% of all publicly accessible videos from this group. Users who have posted videos are generally more active on the platform than non-posters.

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    Loyal Liberals

    Liberal across most issues, they are invested in the Democratic Party and in domestic and international institutions Loyal Liberals have broadly progressive political values across many issue areas and a strong allegiance to the Democratic Party. Highly educated and relatively secure economically, they are strong supporters of the United States’ traditional diplomatic alliances. Loyal Liberals […]

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    How the audiences of 30 major news sources differ by education and age

    ☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story Pop star Taylor Swift and Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce announced their engagement this week after two years of dating, breaking a record on Instagram and also spurring widespread media coverage. […]

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    Roughly a third of young adults have negative views of their mental health

    Key takeaways: Health experts say the United States is in the midst of a mental health crisis. According to a new Pew Research Center study, young adults fare much worse than older adults when it comes to their ratings of their mental health, social relationships and stress management. Building on previous Center research on social […]

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    1. How Americans use and engage with podcasts

    About half of adults in the United States (49%) say they have listened to a podcast in the past 12 months, according to the new survey. This finding follows previous Pew Research Center analyses showing that podcast listening has steadily increased throughout the past decade. One-in-five podcast listeners – which is about 10% of all […]

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    X testing new feature highlighting agreement

    ☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story X (formerly Twitter) is piloting a new use for its Community Notes feature: flagging posts that generate agreement from users who normally have differing views, Axios is reporting. The end goal is to […]

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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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