Pew report 44 percent of U.S. adults get news on Facebook

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  • 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:

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Via the Pew Foundation – full report is available here.