U.S. opinion on content regulation by social media companies or gov't 2020

According to a June 2020 survey, over half of U.S. adults believed that social media companies are responsible for managing controversial and inaccurate content on their platforms. The majority of respondents stated that social networks should fact check social media posts and tag incorrect information, hide posts that encouraged violence, and delete or restrict accounts posting false information and hate speech. Only 11 percent of respondents thought it was the government's responsibility to fact check social media posts. The regulation of fake news on social media has been a topic ever since the U.S. election in 2016. However, this topic has recently re-gained prominence amidst Twitter placing a content warning on one of President Trump's tweets. This was the first time that a tweet of a public figure has been labelled as such by the social network.