{"id":1774550,"date":"2022-12-14T06:08:19","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T11:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1774550"},"modified":"2022-12-14T07:48:32","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T12:48:32","slug":"dem-voters-much-more-in-favor-of-social-media-censorship-than-against","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-voters-much-more-in-favor-of-social-media-censorship-than-against\/","title":{"rendered":"Dem Voters Much More in Favor of Social Media Censorship Than Against"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdem-voters-much-more-in-favor-of-social-media-censorship-than-against%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1774550&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"insert-box\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"img-fluid insert-image image-article_medium\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"insert-article_medium-92c5d76a-694b-4553-bdc2-3055969e4ef4\" data-insert-attach=\"{\" id  style=\"display:none\"><\/p>\n<p>(Getty Images\/Olivier Douliery)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Three-fourths all U.S. likely voters think that social media companies like Facebook are censoring content because of political bias, and three-fourths of Democrat voters agree, but Democrats are much less likely to want Congress to do anything about it \u2013 and much more concerned about so-called \u201cmisinformation\u201d posted on social media sites.<\/p>\n<p>The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 77% of likely U.S. voters and 74% of Democrat voters believe it\u2019s likely that social media companies, such as Facebook, censor news and commentary because of political bias. More than half (52%) of all voters think it is \u201cvery likely,\u201d but only 39% of Democrat voters think it\u2019s highly likely.<\/p>\n<p>Fully 72% of all voters call politically-biased social media censorship a problem, including half (49%) who say it\u2019s a \u201cvery serious\u201d problem. Among Democrats, however, fewer (63%) believe it\u2019s a problem, with just 31% citing it as a very serious one.<\/p>\n<p>And, while two-thirds (66%) of all likely voters would like to see Congress investigate social media censorship once Republicans take control of the House, only about half (52%) of Democrats approve of an investigation. Forty-three (43%) of all voters and 24% of Democrats \u201cstrongly approve\u201d of Congress looking into the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Conversely, Democrat voters are much more in favor of social media platforms censoring what they deem to be so-called \u201cmisinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In one question, Rasmussen asked:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cSocial media companies say they need to control content on their sites to prevent the spread of \u2018misinformation\u2019 about controversial topics. How serious of a problem is \u2018misinformation\u2019 on social media?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In this case, 87% of Democrat voters consider social media \u201cmisinformation\u201d to be either a very serious (57%) or somewhat serious (30%) problem, compared to 73% of all likely voters (48% \u201cvery serious,\u201d 25% \u201csomewhat serious\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>Giant social media companies have come under fire for suppressing conservative content, prompting the Media Research Center to launch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/freespeech\">Free Speech America<\/a> and its <a href=\"https:\/\/censortrack.org\/\">CensorTrack<\/a> database documenting specific examples of censorship by influential social media platforms, such as Facebook and Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>On December 2, new Twitter Owner Elon Musk began <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/free-speech\/joseph-vazquez\/2022\/12\/02\/unleashed-twitter-owner-elon-musk-releases-hunter-biden\">releasing evidence<\/a> of how the social media behemoth had previously censored conservative posts, particularly <a href=\"https:\/\/cnsnews.com\/article\/national\/michael-w-chapman\/twitter-facebook-censorship-biden-laptop-story-helped-steal-2020\">regarding the Hunter Biden laptop scandal<\/a> in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>The national survey of 1,000 U.S. likely voters was conducted December 8 and 11, 2022 by Rasmussen Reports.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/biden_administration\/censorship_voters_want_investigation_of_social_media_sites\">Rasmussen Reports.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Getty Images\/Olivier Douliery) Three-fourths all U.S. likely voters think that social media companies like Facebook are censoring content because of political bias, and three-fourths of Democrat voters agree, but Democrats<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1899513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[5458,6371,6244,6166,4188,3819,5127,4223],"class_list":["post-1774550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-bongino","tag-censorship","tag-dem","tag-favor","tag-media","tag-report","tag-social","tag-voters"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1774550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1774550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1899513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1774550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1774550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1774550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}