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1. YouTube news consumers about as likely to use the site for opinions as for facts
About a quarter of U.S. adults use YouTube to get news … and YouTube news consumers are about evenly split between those seeking opinions, facts
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- 1. YouTube news consumers about as likely to use the site for opinions as for facts
- About a quarter of U.S. adults use YouTube to get news … and YouTube news consumers are about evenly split between those seeking opinions, facts
- Most YouTube news consumers say the site is an important way they get news, but not the most important
- Half of YouTube news consumers say the news they see in YouTube videos is politically moderate-03
- How YouTube news consumers use the site-05
- Fewer than half of YouTube news consumers say they are loyal to a few shows, people or channels … and a similar share say they pay a lot of attention to who created the news videos they watch on YouTube
- YouTube news consumers who rely heavily on the site for news more likely to go there for facts than opinions
- Most YouTube news consumers occasionally watch the news videos recommended by the site’s algorithm … and say the recommendations are at least somewhat good
- News videos on YouTube are helpful, largely accurate, according to those who get news there-09
- Most YouTube news consumers do not see major problems with getting news from the site
- Partisan differences on whether censorship, misinformation, harassment are very big problems with news on YouTube-12
- YouTube news consumers are equally likely to often get news on the site from news outlets, independent channels
- YouTube news consumers are disproportionately more likely to be young, male
- YouTube news consumers say access to sources outside the mainstream, commentary make YouTube news unique
- Impeachment and Trump administration most common topics that YouTube news consumers learned the most about-14