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Online Communities Rarely Focus on Politics, and Many Say It Should Stay That Way

Pew Research Center · Colleen McClain, Jeffrey Gottfried, Eugenie Park, Michelle Faverio, Olivia Sidoti and Monica Anderson · last updated

Politics can find a way into online communities, whether they are focused on politics or built around other topics from neighborhoods to parenting. But a new Pew Research Center survey from the Pew-Knight Initiative finds that politics is not a big driver of conversation in the online communities people visit most. And a majority don’t think politics should be there.

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