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Four-in-ten Americans who get news from social media say inaccuracy is the thing they dislike most about it – an increase of 9 percentage points since 2018.
The transition of the news industry away from print, television and radio into digital spaces has caused huge disruptions in the traditional news industry, especially the print news industry. Today, an overwhelming majority of Americans get news at least sometimes from digital devices.
As news outlets morph and multiply, both surveys and passive data collection tools face challenges.
About half of U.S. adults say they get news from social media “often” or “sometimes,” and this use is spread out across a number of different sites. Facebook stands out as a regular source of news for about a third of Americans.
Videos from independent news producers are more likely to cover subjects negatively and discuss conspiracy theories.
More than half of these social media news consumers say they have encountered made-up news about COVID-19.
U.S. adults in this group are less likely to get the facts right about COVID-19 and politics and more likely to hear some unproven claims.
Many U.S. news organizations are covering the coronavirus pandemic while themselves facing financial pressure from the outbreak.
Getting news from social media is an increasingly common experience; nearly three-in-ten U.S. adults do so often.
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