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Pew: if you use Facebook or Twitter, you probably get news there
- at-fates-hands 11y agoThere's a huge difference between getting news on FB or Twitter and actually reading and knowing what the news is saying. I have multiple friends and family who don't visit news sites but get it on their FB or Twitter feeds. This is usually how the conversation goes: ME: "Did you read the story about the new developments in the Silk Road case on Wired?" THEM: "Oh no, I just saw a headline about it in my FB/Twitter feed, what did it say?" So yes, more people are getting their news on social media platforms, but when its part of a huge firehose of information, they hardly have time to read the articles or digest anything further than the headline.