More Americans are turning to multiple social media sites for news
About a quarter of all U.S. adults get news from two or more social media sites, up from 15% in 2013 and 18% in 2016.
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About a quarter of all U.S. adults get news from two or more social media sites, up from 15% in 2013 and 18% in 2016.
One-in-five U.S. adults often get news via social media, slightly higher than the 16% who often do so from print newspapers.
Blacks were more likely than whites to act upon online news in two particular ways: speaking with someone offline and saving news for later.
Nearly nine-in-ten voters who followed the 2016 returns (88%) did so on TV, while 48% used online platforms; 21% used social networks such as Twitter and Facebook.
On a typical weekday, three-quarters of U.S. Latinos get their news from internet sources, nearly equal to the share who do so from television, according to a 2016 survey of Latino adults by Pew Research Center.
As of August 2017, 43% of Americans report often getting news online, just 7 points lower than the 50% who often get news on television.
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