- More than 40 percent of American adults get news on Facebook
- Two-thirds of Facebook users access news on the social platform
- 67 percent of U.S. adults active on Facebook
- Facebook is overwhelmingly the largest social media source of news for Americans
- 10 percent of U.S. adults get news on YouTube, 9 percent see news on Twitter, 4 percent on Instagram, and 2 percent on Snapchat and Reddit
- Here are some insightful charts/stats:
Via the Pew Foundation – full report is available here.