Title: How the Average American Gets Their News - The Atlantic
Headings: How the Average American Gets Their News
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How the Average American Gets Their News
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Content: And if you opt to like, share, or comment on news posts on Facebook, you’ll see more of it. The Pew finds that neither of those two things happen very often. Only about a quarter of social-media users regularly click through to read a news story on social media — the most basic form of engagement. Just 16 percent of social-media users often “like” a news story. Only 11 percent of people often share news stories on social media. And eight percent of Americans regularly comment on news articles—which, given the odiousness of this website’s comment threads, may be a good thing. These numbers didn’t meaningfully correlate to generational divides: Both older and younger people engaged with the news online in roughly equal measure. But all these numbers do significantly rise when they include people who engage with the news “sometimes.” Eighty percent of Americans often or sometimes click on a news story, for instance, and 49 percent share or repost news stories.