{"id":5428,"date":"2024-06-14T14:02:21","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T18:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/?p=5428"},"modified":"2024-06-14T14:04:43","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T18:04:43","slug":"survey-leery-of-government-regulation-americans-want-social-media-to-police-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/2024\/06\/14\/survey-leery-of-government-regulation-americans-want-social-media-to-police-misinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey: Leery of Government Regulation, Americans Want Social Media to Police Misinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Burt Glass<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. government should not regulate social media platforms, but the platform owners should remove, hide or limit traffic to posts with unverified information, according to Americans responding to a new Media &#038; Technology Survey from Boston University\u2019s College of Communication, out today.  <\/p>\n<p>A strong plurality (46%) disagreed or strongly disagreed with the U.S. government regulating social media platforms, compared to only 28% who agreed or strongly agreed. Respondents expressed more agreement with the removal (63%) or minimizing (57%) of unverified information by the platforms themselves.<\/p>\n<p>These results reflect both the public\u2019s skepticism of governmental overreach and support for private solutions to countering misinformation, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/profile\/chris-chao-su\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chris Chao Su<\/a>, an assistant professor of emerging media studies at Boston University\u2019s College of Communication who designed the survey.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/articles\/leery-of-government-regulation-americans-want-social-media-to-police-misinformation-survey-finds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read full story here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Burt Glass The U.S. government should not regulate social media platforms, but the platform owners should remove, hide or limit traffic to posts with unverified information, according to Americans responding to a new Media &#038; Technology Survey from Boston University\u2019s College of Communication, out today. A strong plurality (46%) disagreed or strongly disagreed with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22892,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22892"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5431,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5428\/revisions\/5431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}