Verge survey of 1,123 US adults: 72% said Facebook has too much power; 51% said Google and YouTube should be split up into separate companies
Ahead of the election year, we polled Americans about which big tech companies they trust with their personal information — and which ones should be broken up
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The most trustworthy big tech company when it comes to protecting personal information was Microsoft, followed closely by Amazon, Netflix, and Apple; the least trustworthy were Facebook and Twitter, with fewer than half of respondents saying they trusted them https://twitter.com/…
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Verge Tech Survey 2020! Two results that stand out from our nationally-representative poll: 1. No one has any idea that Facebook owns Instagram and 2. Google and Amazon remain utterly beloved https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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Only 38% of people know Facebook owns Instagram, and only 29% know the company owns WhatsApp https://twitter.com/...
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@waltmossberg
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I'm always amused by people who declare they're quitting @Facebook over its corporate privacy policies and bad ethics, but staying on @instagram, which has the same ownership and corporate leadership. This is an interesting survey by @verge. https://twitter.com/...
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@emilybell
Emily Bell
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Also these favourability ratings are in some ways astonishingly high. Ninety per cent for YouTube.... https://twitter.com/...
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Dieter Bohn
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I bet that if you tried to guess the the amount of trust that most Americans feel for Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Apple ....you would get it wrong. https://www.theverge.com/...
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@mattnavarra
Matt Navarra
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Ouch...! Twitter scored lower / worse than Facebook in @verge's Tech Survey for 2020... Full results: https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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56% of respondents said the government should break up tech companies if they control too much of the economy. See the full results here: https://www.theverge.com/...
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Once again, despite intense criticism, Amazon proves to be the most beloved company with 91% of people saying they viewed it favorably https://twitter.com/...
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shockingly people seem to really truly love the “push a button and get anything in the universe delivered to your house” machine and the “push a button get any question in the universe answered” machine https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...