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short readsMar 30, 2020

QAnon’s conspiracy theories have seeped into U.S. politics, but most don’t know what it is

Despite the spread of the conspiracy theories, about three-quarters of U.S. adults say they have heard or read nothing at all about them.
reportJun 24, 2020

1. Posts about COVID-19 appeared in a wide range of public Facebook spaces

As Americans grew more aware of the threat posed by the novel coronavirus, social media became a key avenue for following related developments. This study, which examined 3,000 public Facebook spaces with the most popular COVID-19 posts in March 2020, aimed to bring to light the types of spaces where these conversations took place. (The […]
reportApr 29, 2020

4. Some claims about ways to fight COVID-19 reach more Americans than others

Since the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak, a nearly continuous stream of information has flooded news headlines, personal conversations and social media feeds with possible causes, treatments and endings for the outbreak – some with more truth behind them than others. Fact checkers themselves have struggled to keep pace. One way to gauge the impact […]
reportMay 14, 2020

Communicating technical content

A common challenge facing researchers is how to make complex subject matter accessible to a general audience.
short readsApr 14, 2020

Half of Americans have decided not to use a product or service because of privacy concerns

A substantial share of the public has opted out of using a product or service because of concerns about how much information would be collected.
reportJun 24, 2020

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This study takes a close look at the public spaces (public pages and groups) on Facebook in which coronavirus-related posts with links in March 2020 received a high level of interactions. During this time, the United States went from having two known deaths from the virus on March 1 to a stay-at-home order in most […]
data essayMar 5, 2021

A Year of U.S. Public Opinion on the Coronavirus Pandemic

The biggest takeaway may be the extent to which the decidedly nonpartisan virus met with an increasingly partisan response.
reportFeb 21, 2020

3. Concerns about democracy in the digital age

About half of the experts responding to this canvassing said people’s uses of technology will mostly weaken core aspects of democracy and democratic representation, but even those who expressed optimism often voiced concerns. This section includes comments about problems that were made by all respondents regardless of their answer to the main question about the […]
reportMar 30, 2020

Growing Share of Adults Have Heard Something About the 2020 Census Recently

Overall readiness to respond to the census has inched up since earlier this year, even as some key hard-to-count groups remain less enthusiastic than others.
short readsDec 20, 2019

U.S. has changed in key ways in the past decade, from tech use to demographics

Among the changes: Smartphones and social media became the norm, church attendance fell, and same-sex marriage and legalizing marijuana gained support.

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