Saturday, October 26, 2013
One-third of US adults get news through Facebook
A Facebook Inc. logo is displayed at the top of the login page for facebook.com on a computer screen.
Almost 80 percent of those surveyed happen upon news when they are checking up on friends or sharing photos.
One in three Americans get news through Facebook, according to a study from the Pew Research Center released on Thursday.
Almost 80 percent of those surveyed happen upon news when they are checking up on friends or sharing photos. Heavy news consumers did not describe Facebook as an important source of news, the study found.
"People go to Facebook to share personal moments - and they discover the news almost incidentally," Amy Mitchell, director of journalism research at Pew, said in a statement.
The survey is the first part of a series of studies that the Pew Research Center in collaboration with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation are conducting to examine social media and news consumption.
The study said that about two-thirds of all U.S. adults use Facebook. The world's largest social media site displays a stream where people and publishers can share news. Only 4 percent of Facebook news consumers said the platform is the most important way they obtain their news.
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By Jennifer Saba of Reuters
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