78% of Americans believe social media companies wield too much power: Pew survey

While there seems to be an unending rift between Republicans and Democrats on virtually every issue, there appears to be something both sides can agree on: Social media companies are too powerful.

According to the Pew Research Center, 78% of Americans believe social media companies wield too much power. To break it down even more, 84% of Republicans and 74% of Democrats hold this view.

While most Americans have held this view since the last presidential election year, the level of disapproval has become 6% higher since then.

Tech Crunch reported that one of the only issues that both Republicans and Democrats seem to agree on is the power of social media companies and the need to reel back that power before it gets out of hand.

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