Politics

Americans Want Social and Tech Platforms to Prevent Misuse as the Election Approaches

But Pew Research Center found that they don’t trust those companies to do so

Suspicious woman holding phone looking at you — Just 5% of respondents were very confident in tech companies' ability to prevent misuseAntonioGuillem/iStock

Over three-quarters of Americans believe that social and technology platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Google are responsible to prevent misuse of their platforms to influence November’s presidential election, but nearly three-quarters also have little or no confidence in them to do so.

Pew Research Center polled 12,638 U.S. adults from Jan. 6 through 19 and shared its findings in a blog post.

Pew found that 43% of respondents were not too confident in social and tech platforms to prevent misuse in the run-up to the election, and 31% were not at all confident.

Meanwhile, just 20% were somewhat confident, and a paltry 5% were very confident.

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