01/27/2023
: 5 in 10 Americans Get (Mis)informed on Social Media 😣 - Despite several studies finding that social media is rife with misinformation and widespread consensus that foreign actors tried to use social media to influence the past two U.S. presidential , Americans continue to rely heavily on platforms such as Facebook and Twitter to get their news. Interestingly, , and other “established” social networks have seen a decline in the share of users getting news on each platform over the past two years, possibly as a result of the revelations about systematic misinformation on social media. Meanwhile, , whose rapid rise to popularity has been eyed with suspicion from the start due to concerns over its parent company and its ties to the government, is bucking the trend, with 33 percent of its users regularly getting news on the platform versus 22 percent in 2020.