A large percentage of Americans got their news primarily from social media platforms in 2020, but these people were more likely to see and believe misinformation, according to a survey.WASHINGTON - Americans who rely on social media as their main source of news are more likely believeThe Pew Research Center report found that people who usedfor news were less informed about major public affairs topics and more susceptible to believing rumors and hoaxes.
The report comes with social media platforms becoming a growing source of news amid struggles by traditional media in the digital age.The Pew report found some 18 percent of respondents in the survey got most of their political and election news via social media. But those people were less likely to correctly answer fact-based questions about politics and current events than those relying on print, broadcast or news apps.
Social media news consumers were more aware of specific false or unproven stories about the coronavirus and said they had seen more misinformation about the pandemic such as claims that Vitamin C could prevent infection, the survey found.On political news, social media users were less informed about facts such as the function of the state-by-state Electoral College votes, which ultimately decide who wins the White House, or the unemployment rate.
The report comes from a series on interviews with some 9,000 US adults from November 2019 through December 2020.
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(ANALYSIS) ENCA more likely to be racist
Nope... Just as prone to misinformation as any other channel, because you guys use social media as well, so misinformation is rife 😉
90% of the planet!
FatalMoves Maybe this tweet is misinformation. Given that it is on social media, people may believe it.
Social media is ni longer reliable, and its fast becoming News media and not social...plus they seem fit to control what they want to get out there
Did you read the article guys?
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I disagree. I use social media but i have brains and they work very well....thank you!!*
Social media users are so smart they can see racism from afar.......anisyeke ngama study abolile
Yeah, like your reporter's racial profiling. 'It's not what it looks like' nhe?
Isn't that a fact? I mean people on social media are the most gullible beings
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