News on Twitter: Consumed by Most Users and Trusted by Many
Fully 70% of U.S. adult Twitter news consumers say they have used Twitter to follow live news events, up from 59% who said this in 2015.
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Fully 70% of U.S. adult Twitter news consumers say they have used Twitter to follow live news events, up from 59% who said this in 2015.
More than eight-in-ten U.S. adults say they get news from a smartphone, computer or tablet “often” or “sometimes.”
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.
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.
Both Democrats and Republicans express far more distrust than trust of social media sites as sources for political and election news.
Americans who closely follow political news are more likely to have confidence that the public will accept election results. And that’s true across party boundaries.
In March 2020, about three-quarters (74%) of public Facebook posts about COVID-19 linked to news organizations, while just 1% linked to health and science sites.
Getting news from social media is an increasingly common experience; nearly three-in-ten U.S. adults do so often.
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