Americans want tougher rules for big tech amid privacy scandals, poll finds

After Cambridge Analytica revelations, 83% of Americans call for companies like Facebook to face harsher penalties for breaches

Americans want major technology companies to be regulated, with legal responsibility for the content they carry on their platforms and harsher punishment for breaches of data privacy, according to a nationally representative survey of 2,500 adults.

In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the way that technology companies handle our personal data and moderate the content - including fake news, hate speech and terrorist propaganda - on their platforms has been thrown under the microscope.