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Two-Thirds of Adults Get News from Social Media

by whitef0x on 6/4/16, 5:06 PM with 4 comments

• by wildmusings on 6/4/16, 6:18 PM

  Deceptive headline. Second sentence of the article:

  >Two in 10, or 18%, report getting news that way often.

  So it sounds like the headline statistic includes anyone who has read even a single news story they found on social media. That's totally different than what's implied.

• by CM30 on 6/4/16, 6:34 PM

  So do many journalists. In some fields, news stories seem to be almost exclusively based on Tweets, forum posts, Reddit posts and Youtube videos.

  I personally still check some news sites from time to time, but yes, the majority of my news comes from social media sites and internet communities now.

• by elliotec on 6/4/16, 6:25 PM

  I exclusively get my news from social media - most notably HN and Reddit, also facebook and Twitter. Occasionally a BBC breaking news thing will happen on my phone which would be the only times I don't get my news from social media.

• by lumberjack on 6/4/16, 6:42 PM

  With tradition news sources you often know the bias of the source in advance. When reading some seemingly informed comment on Facebook/Reddit you don't know who the entity behind that comment really is.