{"id":9521,"date":"2020-09-09T12:00:15","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T17:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/%year%\/%monthnum%\/%day%\/few-americans-are-confident-in-tech-companies-to-prevent-misuse-of-their-platforms-in-the-2020-election\/"},"modified":"2024-04-13T23:44:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T04:44:28","slug":"few-americans-are-confident-in-tech-companies-to-prevent-misuse-of-their-platforms-in-the-2020-election","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2020\/09\/09\/few-americans-are-confident-in-tech-companies-to-prevent-misuse-of-their-platforms-in-the-2020-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Few Americans are confident in tech companies to prevent misuse of their platforms in the 2020 election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Americans have little confidence in technology companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google to prevent the misuse of their platforms to influence the 2020 presidential election. Above, workers in Facebook’s “war room” in Menlo Park, California, in 2018. (Noah Berger\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Three-quarters of U.S. adults say technology companies have a responsibility to prevent the misuse of their platforms to influence the 2020 presidential election, but only around a quarter say they are very or somewhat confident in these firms to do so, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted July 27-Aug. 2. The survey comes as Facebook and other major tech companies make efforts to limit political misinformation<\/a> ahead of the November election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Since 2018, majorities of Americans have said that tech companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google have a responsibility to prevent misuse of their platforms to influence elections. However, the share of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents who say tech companies have this responsibility has declined since January, from 75% to 64%. Among Democrats and Democratic leaners, an overwhelming majority continues to say tech companies are responsible for preventing misuse of their platforms (85% today, up from 81% in January).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is a much wider partisan gap on whether social media companies should label posts by elected officials and ordinary users as inaccurate or misleading, according to a separate survey conducted by the Center in June<\/a>. Democrats are far more likely than Republicans to say social media companies should do this kind of labeling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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