Polling this month of more than 10,000 adults found over half 54% said that social media companies should outright ban political ads, Pew reported.
Among respondents identifying as Republican or Republican-leaning, 38% said the companies should allow all political ads, 10% said they should allow some, and 50% said they should not allow any, Pew reported.
Respondents identifying as Democrat or Democratic-leaning mostly said to ban the ads outright: 56% said none should be allowed, while 42% told pollsters at least some should be permitted, according to Pew.
8-13 among participants in Pews nationally representative American Trends Panel and has a margin of error of plus or minute 1.6 percentage points, per the pollster.
Twitter banned all political ads on its platforms last year; Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently announced his company will ban political ads in the one week leading up to Election Day on Nov.
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