Politics & Media

With Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential bid now officially underway, here are key facts about Truth Social and its users.

One-in-five federal, state and local candidate tweets in 2022 have mentioned race, abortion, education or the economy.

In recent years, several new options have emerged in the social media universe, many of which explicitly present themselves as alternatives to more established social media platforms. Free speech ideals and heated political themes prevail on these sites, which draw praise from their users and skepticism from other Americans.

55% of journalists surveyed say that every side does not always deserve equal coverage in the news. 22% of Americans overall say the same.

Here are five facts about political content on Twitter, such as the content and nature of these posts.

Roughly one-quarter of American adults use Twitter. And when they share their views on the site, quite often they are doing so about politics and political issues.

Nearly 12,000 U.S.-based journalists in a pair of open-ended questions were asked to write down the one thing the news industry does the best job of these days and what it does worst.

A survey of U.S.-based journalists finds 77% would choose their career all over again, though 57% are highly concerned about future restrictions on press freedom.

61% of U.S. adults say they have heard at least a fair amount about the phrase “cancel culture,” up from 44% in September 2020.

In Nebraska, 58% of all reporters covering the state capitol this year – 40 of 69 – are student reporters.