from Hacker News

Social media now main source of news in US, research suggests

by saltysalt on 6/17/25, 4:39 PM with 4 comments

• by WarOnPrivacy on 6/17/25, 5:25 PM

  From the article: According to the Reuters Institute

      (54%) get news from networks like Facebook, X and YouTube
      (50%) from TV 
      (48%) and news sites and apps
  

  I was newspapers for 25y, news sites since.

• by duxup on 6/17/25, 4:47 PM

  Social media as "news" makes it really hard to talk to people online about things. It's never just "news" it's always some larger narrative that is weird.

  Sometimes conversations start like you're in the middle of some other conversations with some nonsense narrative that I can't make heads or tails of, and their terminology is all arbitrary / random.

  More than once I've had folks even on HN try to sell me that Trump & Co is some sort of proletarian taking power scenario ... wut?

  Where do you even start with people when their first line is so weighted down by who knows what and if you ask you're assumed to be the enemy or something?