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Jordan Crook @ jordanrcrook / 9:44 AM PDT • May 26, 2016
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A new study from Pew Research claims that 62 percent of people get their news from social media, with 18 percent doing so very often. As expected, the top social media news source is Facebook. The study claims that two-thirds of Facebook’s user base read their news on the platform, with 59 percent of Twitter users getting news on Twitter, and 70 percent of Reddit users doing the same with their respective platform. Considering the difference in size of these user groups — Facebook reaches 67 percent of the adult American population while Twitter only reaches 16 percent — that puts Facebook on top with 44 percent of the population getting news from the network. Comparatively, Twitter and YouTube come in second with about 10 percent of the population getting news on those platforms. Only about a quarter of those polled (4,654 members of the Pew Research Center’s American Trends Panel) get news from two or more sites, and only 10 percent receive news from three or more platforms, putting overlapping audiences in the minority. That said, between 20 percent and 30 percent of users across the top five social media sites with news audiences also get their news from television, both nightly network news and local TV. Half of Twitter and LinkedIn news consumers also seek out news from websites and apps, with around one-third of Facebook and YouTube news users doing the same. A similar study from 2012 saw 42 percent of U.S. adults getting their news from social media, so in the past four years, news on social media has grown 20 percent.