Title: More Americans Are Getting Their News From Social Media
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Content: LinkedIn, Reddit and Snapchat had smaller but still notable audiences at a respective 8%, 8% and 6%. Facebook, along with Twitter and Reddit, also stood out as the sites that had the highest proportion of respective users seeking news. Almost three-quarters (73%) of users of the social network use it as a way to get news, compared to 71% of Twitter and 62% of Reddit users the Pew study found. All The News That's Fit to Tweet
One of the factors driving this is that now almost all news organizations now rely on social media – if not to report the story then to promote those stories. For many readers, instead of clicking through to the actual reporting, the social media recap seems to be good enough. Too often social media is also allowing an agenda to be promoted, rather than news to be reported. "Every newspaper is owned by someone or a group of 'someones' that have their own political and otherwise agendas," explained social media consultant Lon Safko, author of The Social Media Bible. "Look at The Wall Street Journal versus The New York Times ," Safko added. Bias that might not exist in the actual pages of the newspapers does unfortunately have a way of showing up on social media. There have been several notable cases where reporters have been reprimanded or even fired for their comments on social media.