The Half-Dirty Glass of Social Media: New Research on Twitter, Facebook, and the News

One thing liberals and conservatives agree upon

9 min readFeb 18, 2021

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Photo Credit: The Social Habit, by Edison Research

Recently, Edison Research (my company) published the first data from our new syndicated tracking study of social media, The Social Habit. Entitled “Twitter Before and After Trump,” the report took a snapshot of social media usage immediately…

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