A study held in the United States in early 2021 found that mainstream news outlets and journalists were the news source paid most attention to among social media news consumers, with ** percent of Twitter users citing these as their main focus when getting news via the platform, and over ** percent of Facebook and YouTube news users said the same. However, ** percent of respondents using YouTube for news said that they paid most attention to internet personalities when finding news there, and ** percent looked most at news content posted by ordinary people.
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Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. (June 23, 2021). News sources paid most attention to when using social networks for news in the United States as of February 2021 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved July 12, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1312737/social-network-news-source-usage-us/
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. "News sources paid most attention to when using social networks for news in the United States as of February 2021." Chart. June 23, 2021. Statista. Accessed July 12, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1312737/social-network-news-source-usage-us/
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. (2021). News sources paid most attention to when using social networks for news in the United States as of February 2021. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: July 12, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1312737/social-network-news-source-usage-us/
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Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, News sources paid most attention to when using social networks for news in the United States as of February 2021 Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1312737/social-network-news-source-usage-us/ (last visited July 12, 2025)
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