2020-10-10
Three-quarters of U.S. adults say technology companies have a responsibility to prevent the misuse of their platforms to influence the 2020 presidential election, but only around a quarter say they are very or somewhat confident in these firms to do so: https://www.pewresearch.org/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Financial Times
Twitter announces changes to clamp down on US election misinfo, like blocking retweets of misleading content from candidates and accounts with 100K+ followers
Move is latest escalation of anti-misinformation measures in run-up to presidential vote — Twitter will block retweets and …
2020-06-11
In a 2019 survey before current controversies about police, more than Half of U.S. adults said they trusted law enforcement to use facial recognition technology responsibly https://www.pewresearch.org/ ... https://twitter.com/...
CNBC
Amazon says it will ban police from using Rekognition for one year, as Congress “appears ready” to place stronger regulations on facial recognition tech
- Amazon said on Wednesday that it's putting in place a one-year moratorium on police use of Rekognition.
2020-05-06
37% of Americans now go online mostly using a smartphone, and these devices are increasingly cited as a reason for not having a high-speed internet connection at home https://www.pewresearch.org/ ... https://twitter.com/...
New York Times
With one in four Americans lacking high-speed internet at home, some resort to sitting outside closed cafes and libraries to access free Wi-Fi
Cecilia Kang / New York Times : Tweets: @tomwarren , @webfoundation , @facttank , @reprokhanna , @drewharwell , @chrisensingcbc , @shiraovide , and @mayawiley Tweets: Tom Warren /...
2020-03-26
70% of U.S. social media news consumers say the media greatly or slightly exaggerated the risks, with only those in the radio group (69%) and news website group (67%) as likely to see those exaggerations. https://www.journalism.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Pew Research Center
Pew survey: 57% of Americans who rely mostly on social media for political and election news say they've seen “news” that seemed made up about COVID-19
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95% of those who primarily use cable television for political news, 94% who use national TV and 92% who rely on news websites have been following the outbreak fairly or very closely. https://www.journalism.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Pew Research Center
Pew survey: 57% of Americans who rely mostly on social media for political and election news say they've seen “news” that seemed made up about COVID-19
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2020-02-26
Nearly identical shares of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents (76%) and Democrats and Democratic leaners (74%) have little or no confidence in technology companies to prevent misuse of their platforms in the upcoming election. https://www.pewresearch.org/ ... https://twitter.com/...
Pew Research Center
Pew: 74% of Americans have little or no confidence in tech companies like Facebook and Google preventing misuse of their platforms to influence 2020 election
Nearly three-quarters of Americans (74%) express little or no confidence in technology companies like Facebook …
2020-01-31
Both Democrats and Republicans (including independents who lean toward either party) - in an unusual display of bipartisan convergence - register far more distrust than trust of social media sites as sources for political and election news. https://www.journalism.org/... https://twitter.com/...
Fortune
Survey of 12,043 US adults: 59% distrust Facebook for political and election news, including 62% of Republicans and 59% of Democrats, while 48% distrust Twitter
Danielle Abril / Fortune :