Trump voters named one source more than any other as their main source of election news, whereas Clinton voters were spread across an array of sources.
A majority of Americans get news on social media, including 18% who do so often. News plays a varying role across the nine social networking sites studied.
About nine-in-ten Americans learn about the election in a given week. But they are divided on what type of news source – from television to digital to radio to print – they find most helpful.
Following the attacks on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, U.S. public opinion of the appropriateness of the magazine’s cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad show a tension between free expression and religious tolerance.