Two-thirds of the nation’s voters disapprove of Big Tech’s censorship of politically-related posts prior to next month’s midterm elections, a new national survey reveals.
A national opinion survey, conducted October 4-11, 2022 for The Federalist by Susquehanna Polling and Research, Inc., asked U.S. voters the following question about the practice by behemoth social media platforms of censoring political content:
Do you approve or disapprove of Big Tech companies such as Twitter, Facebook, and Google censoring news stories and preventing users from sharing articles and information related to the upcoming election in November?
While two-thirds (66 percent) say they disapprove of Big Tech’s censorship - including 55 percent who “strongly” disapprove - about a quarter (24 percent) say they support preventing users from seeing, sharing or posting political content that the social media platforms don’t like. Others have no opinion or are undecided.
About half (51 percent) of voters who approve of President Joe Biden’s job performance disapprove of the censorship, while 35 percent are in favor of it.
Self-identified Democrats are more evenly split, though more are against the censorship (44 percent) than are for it (39 percent).
It’s not like voters can turn to traditional, corporate media for their political news, however.
Asked if they “trust the corporate news media to tell the truth when covering news stories” or think media “misrepresent the facts to push a political agenda,” just 13 percent say they believe in the media’s veracity, while three-quarters of voters (77 percent) think media aren’t telling the truth, in favor of a political narrative.
By party, majorities of Republicans (91 percent-6 percent), independents (79 percent-10 percent) and Democrats (59 percent-25 percent) all say that corporate news media aren’t reporting the news truthfully, in an effort to influence voters.
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