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short readsJul 29, 2022

Partisans tend to cite different ideas for what more the government should do for parents and children

Asked what more the government should do to support parents and children, Americans often mention forms of social or direct financial support.
reportJan 12, 2021

News Use Across Social Media Platforms in 2020

About half of U.S. adults say they get news from social media “often” or “sometimes,” and this use is spread out across a number of different sites. Facebook stands out as a regular source of news for about a third of Americans.
reportJun 16, 2022

2. The political content in users’ tweets and the accounts they follow

In addition to surveying users about their experiences on Twitter, researchers from the Center also examined the actual on-site behaviors of a subset of users from this representative panel of U.S. adults who provided their Twitter handles for research purposes. This analysis involved two separate data collections and analyses. First, researchers collected every public tweet posted […]
reportJan 12, 2021

Appendix: Changing measurements of news consumption on social media

This year’s edition of Pew Research Center’s annual study of how Americans use social media sites for news asks about similar topics in different ways from previous years. The Center’s experts made changes this year to improve measurements of news consumption on social media. Those changes are described below. Accordingly, these measures should not be […]
reportSep 30, 2021

Methodology

To conduct this analysis, researchers collected every Facebook post and tweet created between Sept. 8, 2016 and Dec. 8, 2016, and Sept. 3, 2020 and Dec. 3, 2020, by any accounts managed by every voting member of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. Researchers used the Facebook Graph API, CrowdTangle[2. numoffset=”2″ CrowdTangle is a […]
short readsFeb 16, 2021

Online harassment occurs most often on social media, but strikes in other places, too

Three-quarters of U.S. adults who have recently faced some kind of online harassment say it happened on social media.
decodedDec 9, 2021

How we built our data science infrastructure at Pew Research Center

After venturing into the world of computational social science in 2015, the Center needed to develop new tools and workflows.
reportFeb 22, 2021

4. Americans who mainly got news via social media knew less about politics and current events, heard more about some unproven stories

Beyond the differences in perceptions between partisans – and within parties based on people’s news sources – those who turn to social media as the most common way they get their political news stand out in some ways from those who get news from other pathways (news websites and apps; local, cable, and network TV; […]
short readsJan 27, 2021

Republicans, Democrats at odds over social media companies banning Trump

Americans are more likely to support than oppose banning Donald Trump’s social media accounts, but views are divided along political lines.
short readsJan 15, 2021

How lawmakers’ social media activity changed in the days after the U.S. Capitol riot

Social media activity by members of Congress changed in notable ways following the rioting at the Capitol by supporters of President Trump.

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Partisans tend to cite different ideas for what more the government should do for parents and children

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Republicans, Democrats at odds over social media companies banning Trump

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