Twice as many voters plan to vote by mail this year than have typically done so in the past. However, support for major changes to voting methods declined since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Among registered voters, 61% report normally voting in-person on Election Day and 21% usually vote […] Read more »
Farming Rises, Sports Tumbles in Industry Ratings
For the first time in Gallup’s 20 years of tracking Americans’ views of various business and industry sectors, farming and agriculture is the clear leader. The former top-ranking industries — restaurants and computers — remain in the top four, with the grocery industry rounding out the group. Meanwhile, the pharmaceutical […] Read more »
Parents’ and Students’ Thoughts on Support Needed This Fall
… As education leaders develop and revise plans for the 2020-2021 school year, parents, advocates and educators around the country are rightly concerned with ensuring equity as we navigate an education crisis we’ve never seen before. In response to these equity concerns, findings from a recent NewSchools Venture Fund-Gallup study […] Read more »
TikTok Is Shaping Politics. But How?
… A team of researchers has been analyzing political expression on TikTok since, well, before it was TikTok. While nonusers of TikTok may think it’s bursting onto the political stage rather suddenly, and that it has something like a collective political identity, the research gives a different picture. It depicts […] Read more »
Americans Support Free Speech Online but Want More Action to Curb Harmful Content
As the COVID-19 crisis continues and the debate rages on between Twitter and President Trump over online content moderation, a new report from Gallup and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation found that Americans understand the threat of misinformation to public health and democracy, and want misleading information […] Read more »
Fast facts about Americans’ views of social media companies as Trump-Twitter dispute grows
President Donald Trump this week signed an executive order aimed at discouraging social media companies from censoring posts. The order follows a decision by Twitter earlier in the week to add fact-checking labels to two of Trump’s tweets, even as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he doesn’t believe internet companies […] Read more »