News Habits & Media

The biggest takeaway may be the extent to which the decidedly nonpartisan virus met with an increasingly partisan response.

The outbreak has dramatically changed Americans’ lives and relationships over the past year. We asked people to tell us about their experiences – good and bad – in living through this moment in history.

Americans inhabited different information environments, with wide gaps in how they viewed the election and COVID-19.

A plurality of experts think sweeping societal change will make life worse for most people. Still, a portion believe things will be better in a ‘tele-everything’ world.

Americans are more likely to support than oppose banning Donald Trump's social media accounts, but views are divided along political lines.

Voting members of the 116th Congress collectively produced more than 2.2 million tweets and Facebook posts in 2019 and 2020.

Social media activity by members of Congress changed in notable ways following the rioting at the Capitol by supporters of President Trump.

Roughly four-in-ten Americans have experienced online harassment, with half of this group citing politics as the reason they think they were targeted. Growing shares face more severe online abuse such as sexual harassment or stalking

About half of U.S. adults say they get news from social media “often” or “sometimes,” and this use is spread out across a number of different sites. Facebook stands out as a regular source of news for about a third of Americans.

More than eight-in-ten U.S. adults say they get news from a smartphone, computer or tablet “often” or “sometimes.”