A New Era: Social Media and the Rise of Populism

This question of why some people possess populist attitudes and others don’t, will be explored through survey research. A survey was distributed through Meta advertisements in order to reach social media users directly. Respondents were asked a variety of questions regarding their social media use, such as how long they use social media, how often they use it for news, and to gauge their political participation through commenting and reposting. Afterwards they are then asked a variety of questions gauging different populist attitudes as established by current literature.