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Oct 20, 2022

The landscape of social media is ever-changing, especially among teens who often are on the leading edge of this space. While TikTok has established itself as one of the top online platforms for U.S. teens, the share who use Facebook has fallen sharply. pewresearch.org/internet/2022/

May 2

46% of parents with teens say they are extremely or very concerned about their child seeing explicit content on social media, while 27% are highly worried about social media causing lower self-esteem. pewrsr.ch/40Og9Lt

May 2

Teens are more likely to report positive than negative experiences in their social media use. pewrsr.ch/41NJ57s

May 1

40% of U.S. teens say they often or sometimes decide not to post something on social media because they worry people might use it to embarrass them. Girls ages 15 to 17 are most likely to say this. pewrsr.ch/42aPJ7L

May 1

Democratic and Republican Twitter users are growing further apart in their worries about misinformation, harassment and civility on the platform. pewrsr.ch/3Nnp57s

Chart titled "Partisans are increasingly divided over whether misinformation, harassment and civility are major problems on Twitter"

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May 1

Majorities of U.S. teens report using YouTube and TikTok every day, including some who say these use these platforms almost constantly. pewrsr.ch/3oKVESl

Apr 28

22% of teens say their parents are extremely or very worried about their social media use. 39% of teens also say their experiences on social media are better than parents think, while 27% say their experiences are worse than parents think. pewrsr.ch/40KLsXy

Apr 27

Six-in-ten U.S. teens believe they have little (40%) or no control (20%) over the personal information social media companies collect about them. But only one-in-five say they are extremely or very concerned about this. pewrsr.ch/3N8eAok

Apr 26

Half of teens think criminal charges or permanent bans for users who bully or harass others on social media would help a lot to reduce this behavior on these platforms. pewrsr.ch/440V0AA

Apr 26

36% of U.S. teens say they spend too much time on social media, and more than half say it would be difficult to give up. pewrsr.ch/44azUQi

Apr 25

Black teens are more likely than White or Hispanic teens to say they use TikTok, as are teen girls compared with boys. pewrsr.ch/40AqI4D

Apr 25

Asian, Hispanic and Black Americans are more likely than those who are White to say they would apply to a job with an employer that uses artificial intelligence to help make hiring decisions. pewrsr.ch/3N40T9V

Bar chart titled "Two-thirds of Americans would not want to apply for a job where AI is used to help make hiring decisions, but this varies by race and ethnicity"

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Apr 24

Among Americans who view racial bias as a problem in hiring, 53% say increased use of AI by employers during the hiring process would make it more equitable. But Black adults are more skeptical (47%). pewrsr.ch/3N0U8pn

Bar chart titled "Americans who see a problem with racial bias in hiring and performance reviews believe AI would make the issue better, but Black adults are more skeptical"

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Apr 24

95% of U.S. teens ages 13 to 17 say they use YouTube, and 67% say they use TikTok. Since 2014-15, the shares of teens who say they use Instagram and Snapchat have grown, while the share who use Facebook has plummeted. pewrsr.ch/41WsaPE

Apr 24

Opposition to types of AI monitoring in the workplace varies across demographic groups. For example, U.S. adults under the age of 65 are consistently more likely to oppose six key types of AI surveillance at work than those 65 and older. pewrsr.ch/3N0ewXU

Chart showing share of Americans by demographic who say they would oppose employers’ use of artificial intelligence to do each of the following

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Apr 21

Do Americans favor or oppose employers using AI to review job applications and make final hiring decisions? Opinions vary across demographic groups. pewrsr.ch/41nbbGH

Chart showing that Americans with higher household incomes are more likely to favor AI reviewing job applications than those with lower incomes

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Apr 21

81% of U.S. adults say employers’ use of artificial intelligence for monitoring workers in the workplace would make the workers feel like they were being inappropriately watched, and 66% say the information collected about workers would be misused. pewrsr.ch/41q6fAy

Chart showing outcomes Americans predict if AI and face recognition are used at work

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Monica Anderson

@MonicaRAnders

Americans far more likely to think the use of AI in the workplace will have a major impact on workers than on themselves (62% vs. 28%) pewrsr.ch/3LdPEKP

79% of U.S. adults say bias and unfair treatment based on a job applicant’s race or ethnicity is a major or minor problem in hiring. Among them, 53% say this issue would get better if AI was used more by employers in the hiring process. pewrsr.ch/41LQ6Fq

Chart showing that majority of Black adults see racial or ethnic bias in hiring as a major problem

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Cary Funk

@surveyfunk

Interesting piece from

@ranimolla

with highlights from a new

AI will harm thee but not me

survey on uses of AI in the workplace via

@lrainie

@MonicaRAnders

and more vox.com/technology/202 via

@voxdotcom

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AI is coming to the workplace, but most people think it won’t affect them much.

47% of U.S. adults say AI would be better than humans at treating all applicants for a job similarly. 15% say it would do a worse job. By contrast, the public is more likely to believe AI would do worse than humans at seeing potential in job applicants. pewrsr.ch/43R6cPS

Apr 14

Among the 88% of Americans who have heard about cryptocurrency, three-quarters say they are not confident that current ways to invest in, trade or use it are reliable and safe pewrsr.ch/43l5bzo

Apr 13

17% of U.S. adults say they have ever invested in, traded or used a cryptocurrency, including 41% of men ages 18 to 29. pewrsr.ch/3Uzg9NC

Apr 13

45% of U.S. cryptocurrency users say their investments performed worse than they expected. But 60% of users say their cryptocurrency investments have neither help nor hurt their personal finances. pewrsr.ch/402N5zw

Apr 10

NEW from

Majority of Americans aren’t confident in the safety and reliability of cryptocurrency

: Majority of Americans aren’t confident in the safety and reliability of cryptocurrency

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Concern among U.S. adults about cryptocurrency is broad, but some groups are more concerned than others. Only 18% are somewhat confident in crypto.

Mar 31

88% of U.S. adults say they have little or no confidence in Chinese social media companies to follow what their privacy policies say they will do with personal information. 75% don’t trust American social companies to do the same. pewrsr.ch/3lZPWLC

By more than two-to-one, Americans support U.S. government banning TikTok

Mar 31

NEW from @pewreseach: By a more than two-to-one margin, Americans support U.S. government banning TikTok

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Americans support banning TikTok by a more than two-to-one margin, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.

Mar 29

42% of parents of teens say they are extremely or very worried about their teen wasting too much time on social media. 38% express the same level of concern about their child being distracted from completing homework because they are using social media. pewrsr.ch/3TxpQf3 …

Mar 28

Teens from households making under $75,000 a year are more likely to say online harassment and bullying are a major problem, with 62% making this claim, compared with 47% of teens from more affluent homes. pewrsr.ch/3Zdfl20

Chart showing share of U.S. teens who say online harassment and online bullying are a major, minor or not a problem for people their age

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Mar 27

We asked parents of teens to think about teenagers today compared with when they themselves were that age. 77% of these parents say teens today have to deal with a completely different set of issues than they did in the past. pewrsr.ch/40r9BCO bit.ly/3ncFb8I

Mar 24

Chart: How the links shared by prominent accounts on Twitter differ from those shared by prominent accounts on alternative social media sites such as Parler and Truth Social pewrsr.ch/3yWFIOS

A bar chart showing that prominent accounts on Twitter often point readers to news media organizations; those on alternative social media sites, to other social media sites

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Mar 24

The share of teens who say they are online almost constantly has roughly doubled since 2014-15 (46% in 2022 vs 24% then). pewrsr.ch/3FFk2KS

Mar 23

36% of current or recent online dating users say that in the past year they have felt overwhelmed by the number of messages they receive at least sometimes, and this is far more common among women than men (54% vs. 25%). pewrsr.ch/3yWuPg4

Mar 23

Share of U.S. teens ages 13-17 who say they ever use: YouTube: 95% TikTok: 67% Instagram: 62% Snapchat: 59% Facebook: 32% Twitter: 23% Twitch: 20% WhatsApp: 17% Reddit: 14% Tumblr: 5% pewrsr.ch/3TuAXWh

Mar 22

Is calling out others on social media for posting content that might be considered offensive more likely to hold people accountable or punish those who didn't deserve it? Americans' views on this question have shifted somewhat since September 2020. pewrsr.ch/3TuAN17

Mar 22

35% of Americans think algorithms used to display dating profiles to people on dating platforms could not determine whether two people could fall in love. 21% think the algorithms could, while 43% are not sure. pewrsr.ch/40gevCq

Chart showing that relatively few Americans think online dating algorithms could predict love

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Mar 21

% of U.S. adults ages ___ who regularly get news on TikTok: 18-29: 26% 30-49: 10% 50-64: 4% 65+: 1% pewrsr.ch/3lw4lyJ

The Future of Human Agency

In NEW

report, experts who are hopeful about the future of human autonomy/agency say the future will feature both more and less human agency as AI rolls out, and some advantages will be clear pewrsr.ch/3EApnmc 6/6

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Experts are split about how much control people will retain over essential decision-making as digital systems and artificial intelligence spread. They agree that powerful corporate and government...

Feb 24

Among U.S. adults who have ever used an online dating platform, 30% of those who have never been married said they were currently using one of these services in a July 2022 survey. 3% of married users also said this pewrsr.ch/3ZloIga

Lee Rainie

@lrainie

Feb 24

Andre Brock is always one of the key voices in the