A new study suggests a majority of U.S. citizens now get their news from social media websites. The Pew Research Center is an organization that researches social issues surveyed 4,654 people in January and February. Pew researchers found 62 percent of the group got their news from social media websites like Facebook, Twitter and Reddit. The new study shows Facebook to be the most popular social media website for news. More registered users of Reddit get their news from Reddit than registered users of Facebook do from Facebook. But the Pew research shows that 44 percent of all U.S. adults get news from Facebook. Only 2 percent of all U.S. adults get news from Reddit, the study suggests. Twitter, Tumblr and Youtube also had high numbers of registered users getting news from these websites. But the number of people using more than one web site to get news was fairly low. Just 26 percent said they use two sites to get news and only 10 percent said they use three or more.
Title: Study Finds Most Americans Get News from Social Media
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