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Study: Majority of Americans Get News Via Social Media

For the first time in a public opinion survey, a majority of U.S. citizens said they now get news via social media. In a study conducted by the Pew Research Center, 62 percent of respondents said they use social media sites such as Facebook, Reddit and Twitter to get their news. That’s up sizably from 49 percent from a similar poll Pew conducted four years earlier. Researchers found the most popular social media site for news was Facebook, with 66 percent of registered users — nearly...

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