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Along with their demographic distinctions, those whose most common way of getting political and election news is social media also stand out for their relative lack of engagement with a number of major stories in the news. While the coronavirus pandemic and the social unrest in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd […]

In a number of areas, the 18% of U.S. adults who say social media is their most common way to get political and election news stand out from adults who most often follow politics on other platforms (such as print, radio, television or news websites). Most notably, the social media group is the youngest by […]

Even as Americans who primarily get their political news on social media are less likely to follow most news topics and be aware of  specific events in the news, people in this group are as aware – or sometimes more aware – of several unproven claims and fringe theories related to the COVID-19 outbreak. One […]