Todd Wasserman says, “Facebook is the second-biggest source where Americans with Internet access get their political news, trailing only local TV, according to a Pew Research study.

The report, based on a recent poll of 2,901 people, found 49% of respondents got political news from local TV and 48% from Facebook in a typical week. That compares to 44% for CNN and 39% for Fox News.

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Pew cautioned, however, that those percentages were based on the 89% of Americans who have Internet access. If you include unconnected households, then 39% of Americans got political news from Facebook. Pew reports that Facebook is far ahead of YouTube and Twitter as a platform for political news. Just 14% of Internet-equipped respondents said they got such news from YouTube and 9% said they got it from Twitter”.

Facebook Is a Bigger Source for Political News Than CNN, Fox

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