A 'Clear Racial Divide' on Internet's Effect on Politics, Yahoo Says in Online Survey Results
There's a “clear racial divide” about how surveyed online users feel about the effect that the Internet and social media have on politics, Yahoo said Thursday in the results of an online survey. Eighty-three percent of surveyed users said they…
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believe social media and the Internet have resulted in wider dissemination of misinformation, including 85 percent of surveyed white users, 81 percent of Hispanic users and 78 percent of black users, Yahoo said. Fifty-seven percent of white users said social media has made politics more negative, while 50 percent of Hispanics and 41 percent of black users said the same. Yahoo worked with Harris Poll to do the survey, which polled 5,188 registered votes in September.