Former Research Associate
Shreenita Ghosh is a research associate at Pew Research Center, focusing on news and information research. Shreenita holds a doctoral degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in journalism and mass communication with minors in sociology and gender and women’s studies. She is a contributing author to Pew Research Center studies, including “The Role of Alternative Social Media in the News and Information Environment” and “Key Facts about Rumble.”
True crime is the most common topic, making up 24% of top-ranked podcasts; 15% of the top podcasts focus on news. The next most common topics are politics and government (10%); entertainment, pop culture and the arts (9%); and self-help and relationships (8%).
23% of the prominent accounts on the seven alternative social media sites studied sought financial support from their audiences in June 2022.
Here are key facts about the alternative social media service Rumble, an online video-sharing platform founded in 2013.
In recent years, several new options have emerged in the social media universe, many of which explicitly present themselves as alternatives to more established social media platforms. Free speech ideals and heated political themes prevail on these sites, which draw praise from their users and skepticism from other Americans.
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