Most Americans favor restrictions on false information, violent content online
Most Americans say the U.S. government and technology companies should each take steps to restrict false information and extremely violent content online.
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Most Americans say the U.S. government and technology companies should each take steps to restrict false information and extremely violent content online.
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.
True crime is the most common topic, making up 24% of top-ranked podcasts; 15% of the top podcasts focus on news. The next most common topics are politics and government (10%); entertainment, pop culture and the arts (9%); and self-help and relationships (8%).
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.
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.
BitChute is a video-sharing site and an alternative social media platform; here are key facts about the site and its users.
Here are key facts about the alternative social media service Rumble, an online video-sharing platform founded in 2013.
X is still more of a news destination than these other platforms, but the vast majority of users on all four see news-related content.
While 27% of U.S. adults say they have heard of Telegram, only 2% use the alternative social media app for news.
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