Americans Increasingly Get News From Multiple Social Networks

Where do you get your news? Television? Newspapers? Friends?

According to a new report from the Pew Research Center, even more Americans are likely to turn to social media to read about what`s going on in the world around them. Just around one-in-four of US adults, or 26 percent, say they get their news from at least two social media sites—up from 15 percent in 2013 and 18 percent in 2016.

It should come as little surprise that America`s largest social network, Facebook, is where plugged-in users are most likely to get their news. According to Pew`s study, about 45 percent of Americans turn to Facebook for news, and half of those getting their news from Facebook only got their news from Facebook. Around 30 percent said they received their news from two social networks; 20 percent said they got news from three or more social networks....