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America’s News Influencers

Nov 19, 2024 | benton.org | Michael Lipka |Katerina Eva Matsa |Regina Widjaya

In the heat of the 2024 election, news influencers seemed to be everywhere. Both Republicans and Democrats credentialed content creators to cover their conventions—and encouraged influencers to share their political messages. But up until now, it has been difficult to get a sense of the size and characteristics of this new wave of news providers. A unique Pew Research Center study provides a deeper understanding of both the makeup of the news influencer universe and its audience.
Influencers Who Often Post About News, and Who Sees Their Content | Pew Research Center

Nov 18, 2024 | pewresearch.org | Galen Stocking |Luxuan Wang |Michael Lipka |Katerina Eva Matsa |Regina Widjaya |Jacob Liedke | +1 more

This study explores the makeup of the social media news influencer universe, including who they are, what content they create and who their audiences are.
Who U.S. Adults Follow on TikTok

Oct 8, 2024 | benton.org | Regina Widjaya |Samuel Bestvater |Aaron Smith

A new Pew Research Center analysis of the accounts Americans follow on TikTok highlights the centrality of internet-native content creators, prominent influencers and traditional celebrities on the popular short-form video platform. It also finds that users choose to follow far more accounts that post about pop culture and entertainment than those posting about news or politics.
Appendix A: Account classification instruction prompt

Oct 8, 2024 | pewresearch.org | Regina Widjaya |Samuel Bestvater |Aaron Smith

You are an AI assistant trained to help categorize social media accounts. You will be given a description of an account and some of its recent posts. Here is a detailed codebook of the information you will be asked to provide:# CODEBOOK: ##############################################################– IND-ORG: Whether the account belongs to an individual or an organization.
About 1 in 10 restaurants in the U.S. serve Mexican food

Jan 11, 2024 | pewresearch.org | Regina Widjaya |Sono Shah

Mexican culture is widely established in America’s restaurants. Some 11% of restaurants in the United States serve Mexican food, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of data from SafeGraph, which curates information about millions of places of interest around the globe, and the user review site Yelp.
71% of Asian restaurants in the U.S. serve Chinese, Japanese or Thai food

May 23, 2023 | pewresearch.org | Sono Shah |Regina Widjaya

Some 12% of all restaurants in the United States serve Asian food, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis. That share is slightly higher than the 7% of the U.S. population that is Asian American. Pew Research Center conducted this analysis to examine the geographic distribution of Asian restaurants throughout the United States and to highlight patterns of cuisines offered.