Most Americans Say Facebook, Twitter Should Stay Out of the Censorship Biz

Monica Sanchez | January 31, 2018
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Most Americans are against social media websites like Facebook and Twitter actively censoring what users post on their platforms, a new Rasmussen poll finds.

Sixty-one percent (61%) of Americans think it’s better for the owners of social media websites to stay out of the censorship business and allow for free speech. Just 23 percent disagree and 16 percent poll unsure.

Social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter have taken increasingly more steps to regulate content on their websites.

Facebook recently announced that it would be using new algorithms to fight “fake news.” The social media company has also redesigned its News Feed to deemphasize commercial and news content in favor of posts by friends and family, Forbes reports.

A recent set of undercover Project Veritas videos claims of rampant political bias at Twitter and that the company has content review teams that can limit or delete posts or user accounts.  

Twitter has admitted to taking “actions to downrank accounts that are abusive, and mark them accordingly so people can still to click through and see these Tweets if they so choose."

According to Rasmussen, 50 percent of Americans think social media like Facebook and Twitter have had a bad impact on politics in America.

The survey of 1,000 U.S. adults was conducted on Jan. 28-29 and has a margin sampling error of 3 percentage points.

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