Social media users in 11 emerging economies regularly come across new ideas on these platforms of social media platform and messaging Lapp users 75% frequently/occas of social media platform onally see and artic messaging Ies and other Lapp users content when they use social media that introduce them to a new idea % of social media platform and messaging app users who say that the news and information they get on social media is more/about the same) less compared with other sources
Certain groups – such as those with higher levels of education and those who are social media users – are especially likely to note both the positive and negative impacts of technology.1, 2 Across all 11 countries, adults with a secondary education or higher are more likely to say technology has made people more informed about current events relative to those who do not have a secondary education. Yet, in nine countries, those with higher levels of education are also more inclined to say technology has made people more subject to false information and rumors. More highly educated adults are also more likely to say technology has contributed to both political divisions and tolerance of opposing viewpoints in seven of these countries (Colombia, India, Kenya, Lebanon, the Philippines, Tunisia and Vietnam).
Social media users in 11 emerging economies  | regularly come across new ideas on these platforms  | of social media platform and messaging Lapp users  | 75% frequently/occas of social media platform onally see and artic messaging Ies and other Lapp users content when  | they use social media that introduce them to a new idea  | % of social media platform and messaging app users who say that the news  | and information they get on social media is more/about the same) less  | compared with other sources  | About the  | More  | Less  | same  | Up to date  | 50%  | 25%  | 14%  | 31  | 21  | Informative  | 47  | Focused on issues that  | 38  | 28  | 27  | are important to them  | Note: Percentages are 11-country medians Social media and messaging app users include  | those who said they use one or more of the seven specific online platforms measured in this  | survey.  | Source: Mobile Technology and its Social Impact Survey 2018. 03:2, Q32b, Q32e & Q330,  | -Publics in Emerging Economies Worry Socia Media Sow Division, Even as They Offer New  | Chances for Political Engagement  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 