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Seven-in-ten or more Americans say that Democrats, Republicans, liberals and conservatives are at least somewhat comfortable to “freely and openly express their political views” in both their local communities and in the country overall. But there are key partisan differences in these feelings – particularly in views of the national political climate, with Republicans especially […]
Sono Shah is an associate director on Pew Research Center’s Data Labs team. He focuses on the application of computational social science methods to a variety of topics around the center, including race and ethnicity as well as political rhetoric. Shah is a contributing author of studies about how Democrats and Republicans behave on Twitter, […]
Within the online space, many Western Europeans get news through social media. Facebook is by far the most commonly used social media site for news. Compared with other Western European countries, getting news from social media is less common in France. Fewer than half of French adults (45%) get news from social media sites, while […]
Emily A. Vogels is a research associate working on internet and technology research at Pew Research Center. Much of her recent work has focused on teen’s digital lives, the tone and tenor of online discourse and the digital divide. She received her PhD in experimental psychology from University of New Brunswick, with a focus on social media […]
