It finds that Democratic and Republican users are growing further apart in their worries about misinformation, harassment and civility.ĭemocratic users are now far more likely than Republican users to say inaccurate or misleading information (68% vs. In addition to asking Twitter users about the site’s impact on democracy, the Center’s new survey measures their views about potential issues that may occur on the platform.
Musk has been a vocal advocate for preserving free speech on the site, reinstating banned users such as former President Donald Trump and taking on “cancel culture.” But critics have raised concerns that these changes could lead to misinformation and harassment going unchecked on the site.
Twitter has undergone several prominent changes in the past year, ushered in by Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of the site last fall. Those shares increased to 36% among GOP users and 40% among Democratic users in the latest survey. In 2021, roughly a quarter each of Republican and Democratic Twitter users said the site had no impact on American democracy. Still, growing shares in both parties say Twitter isn’t impacting American democracy. The percentage of Democratic and Democratic-leaning Twitter users who say the platform is good for American democracy has decreased from 47% to 24% in the past two years, while the share who say it is bad for democracy has increased – though more modestly – from 28% to 35%.
At the same time, the share of Republican Twitter users who say the site is mostly good for democracy has risen from 17% to 43%.ĭemocrats’ views have moved in the opposite direction. The share of Republican and Republican-leaning Twitter users who say the platform is mostly bad for American democracy has dropped from 60% in 2021 to 21% today, according to a Pew Research Center survey of U.S. Here are the questions used for this analysis, along with responses, and its methodology.
adult population by gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, education and other categories. The survey is weighted to be representative of the U.S. This analysis focuses on those who answered yes to the question, “Do you use Twitter?” Everyone who took part is a member of Pew Research Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP), an online survey panel that is recruited through national, random sampling of residential addresses. This survey was conducted among 10,701 U.S. Pew Research Center conducted this study to gain insight into Twitter users’ views and attitudes about the platform.
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