Big Tech Regulation Survey: Two-Wave Experiment in FR, DE, UK, and US

This survey experiment dataset captures public opinion responses from France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States regarding Big Tech regulation following the 2018 Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal. Collected by Pepper Culpepper for Perspectives on Politics, the data includes pre-treatment and post-treatment waves measuring issue salience and regulatory support across four major Western economies.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the correlation between 'anger' scores and support for technology regulation
• Comparing 'issue salience' shifts across different national political contexts
• Modeling the impact of media exposure on 'willingness to engage in political action' regarding tech policy

Strengths

• Cross-national coverage across four major Western economies (FR, DE, UK, US)
• Two-wave experimental design providing pre-treatment baseline data
• Preregistered hypothesis testing for causal inference regarding regulatory support

Limitations

• Specific focus on the 2018 Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal may limit generalizability to other types of corporate crises
• Sample size and demographic representativeness are not specified in the provided metadata

Provenance

Source

Culpepper, Pepper; Perspectives on Politics

Collection Method

Two-wave survey experiment fielded simultaneously in four countries

Time Range

Post-2018

Freshness

Reflects public sentiment in the aftermath of the 2018 Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal; last updated March 2026.

Geography

France, Germany, United Kingdom, United States