As tech giants face Congress, here’s what Americans actually think of big tech:
Morning Consult poll
released in January found that 65% believe tech companies’ benefits to users aren’t worth “the industry’s becoming more powerful at the expense of smaller companies”—but a majority of those respondents still enjoy big tech products, using major social media and search tools and predominantly shopping online.
Americans who distrust big tech don’t necessarily support government action: 69.8% of respondents to a by the Center for Growth and Opportunity/YouGov said they “somewhat” or “completely agree” that tech companies are too big, but only 44.4% agree the government should break them up.conducted in December and released in March found 50% support government intervention to break up tech companies, while 49% oppose, and the Pew survey found only 47% support more government tech regulation—down from 51% in 2018.
88% of Knight/Gallup respondents said they do not trust social media platforms to “make the right decisions” about what users can post, but 55% still said the companies should be making those decisions anyway, rather than the government.found only 46% of Americans trust Congress to best regulate big tech companies, as compared with 57% who trust the courts, 53% trusting federal agencies and 34% who trust the president.
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