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 »

Pandemic Pollwatch: Civil liberties implications of contact-tracing apps

This is the eighth in a series of weekly papers from GQR summarizing and analyzing all available data on global opinion on COVID-19, with a particular focus on the political implications of global opinion linked to the pandemic. … As a global debate heats up over the civil liberties implications […] Read more »

How Americans see digital privacy issues amid the COVID-19 outbreak

The ongoing coronavirus outbreak has brought privacy and surveillance concerns to the forefront – from hacked video conferencing sessions to proposed government tracking of people’s cellphones as a measure to limit and prevent the spread of the virus. Over the past year, Pew Research Center has surveyed Americans on their […] Read more »

Most Americans are not willing or able to use an app tracking coronavirus infections

Nearly 3 in 5 Americans say they are either unable or unwilling to use the infection-alert system under development by Google and Apple, suggesting that it will be difficult to persuade enough people to use the app to make it effective against the coronavirus pandemic, a Washington Post-University of Maryland […] Read more »

8 in 10 Americans Favor Strict Shelter-in-Place Orders To Limit Coronavirus’ Spread

With President Trump and some Republican governors pushing to restart the nation’s economy, most of the public (80%) supports strict shelter-in-place policies to limit the coronavirus’ spread compared to just one in five (19%) who say these measures pose unnecessary burdens and cause more harm than good, the latest KFF […] Read more »