Data Download: People say they're hopeful about changes tech may bring, but unhappy with the impacts social media has had on politics.
Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.WASHINGTON - Technology and social media have dramatically reshaped the United States over the past decade and Americans have mixed feelings about the changes, according to a deep dive into those topics in the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
Majorities of Americans say they have positive feelings toward Apple, 54 percent, Google, 63 percent, and Amazon, 65 percent. Those are the companies that put smartphones in peoples’ pockets, direct their Web searches and deliver goods to their door.of Americans say they have positive feelings about Facebook, while less than a quarter, 24 percent, say they have positive feelings about Twitter.What's driving those negative feelings? Four points emerged in the poll.
That's a pretty negative set of views and it doesn't get better on the question of people trusting social media companies with their information, particularly Facebook.to protect people’s personal information Majorities from both parties agree that social media wastes time, spreads unfair attacks, spreads lies and falsehoods and divides us.
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