Key findings about Americans and data privacy
71% of adults say they are very or somewhat concerned about how the government uses the data it collects about them, up from 64% in 2019.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
71% of adults say they are very or somewhat concerned about how the government uses the data it collects about them, up from 64% in 2019.
The declining public trust in the news media and polarization of news audiences have profound effects on civic life.
In just three years, the share of U.S. adults who say they regularly get news from TikTok has more than quadrupled, from 3% in 2020 to 14% in 2023.
62% of U.S. adults under 30 say they use TikTok, compared with 39% of those ages 30 to 49, 24% of those 50 to 64, and 10% of those 65 and older.
A new Pew Research Center survey reveals that podcast listening is highly fragmented, and no one podcast dominates.
True crime stands out as the most common topic of top-ranked podcasts in the United States.
23% of the prominent accounts on the seven alternative social media sites studied sought financial support from their audiences in June 2022.
About one-in-ten U.S. adults have heard of Gab, an alternative social media site, and 1% say that they get news there regularly.
One-in-ten U.S. adults have heard of the alternative social media site Gettr, and only 1% say they regularly get news there.
Fully 70% of U.S. adult Twitter news consumers say they have used Twitter to follow live news events, up from 59% who said this in 2015.
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