华盛顿——皮尤研究中心于10月1日表示，越来越多的人认为社交媒体操纵、分裂民众并危害民主，这呼应了全球各地日益高涨的担忧和更严格的监管。
WASHINGTON - A growing number of people think social media manipulates and divides people and harms democracy, Pew Research Centre said on Oct 1, echoing rising concern and tighter scrutiny across the world.
运营Meta、Snap和TikTok等热门社交平台的公司面临着数千起诉讼，并支付了巨额资金来和解有关其伤害用户的指控。
Companies running popular social platforms, including Meta, Snap and TikTok, have faced thousands of lawsuits and paid large sums to settle claims that they harmed users.
与此同时，各国政府一直在寻求万无一失的方法来保护公民的隐私。
Governments, meanwhile, have sought foolproof ways to protect their citizens’ privacy.
澳大利亚在成为首个禁止16岁以下儿童使用社交媒体的国家之后，又提议出台相关规则，允许用户选择退出算法推荐的信息流。
Australia has proposed rules to let users opt out of algorithmically recommended feeds, after becoming the first country to ban social media for children under 16.
皮尤的最新调查显示，82%的澳大利亚成年人支持政府限制儿童使用社交媒体的举措。
Pew’s latest survey showed that 82% of Australian adults support the government’s move to restrict social media access for children.
根据该报告，多数受访者认为社交媒体能够提供信息并赋予人们政治话语权，但与2022年相比，现在认为社交媒体是“坏事”的人数普遍上升。
A majority of respondents said social media informs people and gives them a voice in politics, but there was a broad rise in those who now see social media as a “bad thing” compared to 2022, according to the report.
与加纳、肯尼亚和尼日利亚等人均国内生产总值较低的经济体的民众相比，美国、加拿大和英国等较富裕国家的民众更倾向于认为社交媒体正在危害民主。
People in wealthier countries, including the US, Canada and UK, are more inclined to believe that social media is harming democracy, versus their counterparts in economies with lower gross domestic product per capita - such as Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria.
美国是最怀疑的国家之一，64%的成年受访者表示社交媒体危害民主。力。
The US is among the most sceptical, with 64% of adult respondents saying social media harms democracy.
在拥有较早数据的26个国家中，有16个国家的受访者认为社交媒体对民主有害的比例有所上升。
The share of people who consider social media bad for democracy increased in 16 of 26 countries where older data was available.
皮尤研究中心表示，其调查了37个国家的4,500多名民众，并就美国人使用社交媒体的情况额外调查了5,511名美国成年人。
Pew Research said it surveyed more than 45,000 people in 37 countries, while polling an additional 5,511 US adults on American social media use.