People who use social media for news are less knowledgeable than other news consumers, study says

Posted on AllSides July 30th, 2020
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Americans who use social media for their news consumption are less likely to follow and understand news about the elections or the coronavirus, according to a new study from Pew Research Center’s American News Pathways project.

Researchers analyzed data from five different surveys conducted from October 2019 to June 2020, each with over 8,000 respondents. They studied the seven most common pathways to election and political news: social media; news websites or apps; local, cable and network TV; radio; and print.

Nearly one in five (18%) of Americans said social...

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https://poynter.org/fact-checking/2020/people-who-use-social-media-for-news-are-less-knowledgeable-than-other-news-consumers/

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