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Americans who mainly get their news on social media are less engaged, less knowledgeable

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Americans Who Mainly Get Their News on Social Media Are Less Engaged, Less Knowledgeable | Pew Research Center

There is a LOT here to spread over several pages, but the title sums it up. Some key findings:

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Newshour on PBS is a great source for news.

So's the Associated Press and Reuters.
 
The AntiDonald said:
Because most of what they are reading is from Russian Bots. We already know this from the last election.
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explain age 18-29 who mostly get their news from social media yet vote democrat, that conclusion is a against all of the evidence in the report.

no, the heavy majority of social media news are from liberal news agencies( filtered by the company of course)
 
Many Americans are sadly indifferent to politics. The social media factor has given everyone a voice and there are so many lunatics and idiots shouting about it that the normal people stop listening.
 
The only "social media" I use, as listed on this website...:

75+ Social Media Sites You Need to Know in 2020.
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75+ Social Media Sites You Need to Know in 2020

...is YouTube. I watch several news feeds there, and also on Cable.

I was on Facebook for a short while back when it was limited to those who had a school/college ID and email address. But didn't think it had merit, so I dropped it within a couple of months. I deleted my account back then.

Prior to that I was on MySpace, but deleted that way back when too, long prior to it's collapse/demise.

Seems to me that most of the people who use things like Twitter and Facebook are the same ones who fall for all this SJW, ANTIFAS, systemic racism, sexism, etc. B.S..

So I am not surprised by those numbers/results.
 
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swing_voter said:
Newshour on PBS is a great source for news.

So's the Associated Press and Reuters.
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I am NPR supporter. The BBC world news on PBS at 11:00pm is a great source of real news.
 
Grandpappy said:
Many Americans are sadly indifferent to politics. The social media factor has given everyone a voice and there are so many lunatics and idiots shouting about it that the normal people stop listening.
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The people who post on line, and are heavily into social media are not the part of the populus who make or break an election. They are a small percentage of the electorate in reality.
 
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