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Entering the peak of the the 2020 election season, social media platforms are firmly entrenched as a venue for Americans to process campaign news and engage in various types of social activism. But not all Americans use these platforms in similar ways.

Americans have grown more divided on whether offensive content online is taken seriously enough and on which is more important online, free speech or feeling safe.

77% of adults think it's not acceptable for social media sites to use data about users’ online activities to show them political campaign ads.

U.S. lawmakers have received roughly 2 million more love than anger reactions to posts in the first seven months of 2020.

80% of Americans say social media platforms are very or somewhat effective for raising public awareness about political or social issues.

73% of Americans express little or no confidence in tech companies to prevent the misuse of their platforms to influence the 2020 election.

One-quarter of United States lawmakers mentioned the term on Facebook or Twitter during the 116th Congress.

A majority of women say they have experienced harassing behavior from someone they went on a date with.

Many social media users in the United States are exhausted by how much political content they see on these platforms.