Since Trump supporters stormed the Capitol on January 6, tech has gregariously been undermining their methods of communicating. Trump and many of his followers were unceremoniously ditched from various platforms like Twitter. Parler has recently become the most well known ‘Free Speech’ app which attracted many Trump supporters. Last week,…
American artist Andy Warhol once said, “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.” Last month we issued a blog post about Parler and the massive surge – 1 million app downloads in just five days – that it experienced following the 2020 U.S. Presidential election. While the…
Have you heard the news? Some Facebook and Twitter users planned a mass exodus from the platforms to join Parler. Twitter users are going to Twexit off the platform and more than a dozen Facebook events promoting the exodus are planned, with several dozen more scheduled to take place up…
We weren’t sure if Thursday’s Presidential debate would actually happen or not, but we’re very glad it took place because we have some interesting results from a survey that we launched as the debate ended, and was kept open for the 12 hours following and had 2,121 respondents. The poll…
As announced in our previous blog and following up on the Vice Presidential debate between Harris and Pence, we want to share with you some interesting results from a survey that we launched in real time, while the debate was going on live. The poll was launched on our Embee…
This blog is going to be a little different than some of our others – it is, for the moment, just a “head’s up”. As you most likely know, the VP Debate between Harris and Pence will start in only a few hours. Embee is going to immediately launch a…
Six months into the pandemic, we are still struggling to respond effectively to COVID-19. In principle, it should be a relatively straight-forward process to gaining consensus on what to do. First, through the work of our vastly capable research institutions and scientific community, discover the best practices for mitigating the…
Last January, Google announced it would stop supporting third-party tracking cookies in its Chrome browser within two years. Once a largely hidden technology, cookies have become increasingly more visible to consumers, in part due to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which require…
The pandemic has forced a lot of change in a short period of time. At Embee, we are endeavoring to see if we can pitch in. We’re working with UC Berkeley to build an early warning system that can examine the data we collect from our panel using Berkeley’s artificial…
Just to catch you up, several weeks ago, we started a daily poll of our panel on the 2020 election. We display the results on a real-time dashboard, which updates a series of charts on an hourly basis. We’ve had lots of requests for improvements, and the new ideas keep…
