B
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55%
55% -- share of adults receiving news from social media for US adults (2021)
55% of US adults receive their news from social media.
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Value
55%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2021
Entity
Geography
US
Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
mediaheroes.com.au
Primary
Tier C
https://www.mediaheroes.com.au/blog/fake-news-on-social-media-marketing/ ↗
Source Article
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mediaheroes.com.au
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Cited statistic, original survey not named in text
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Segmentation
Industrymedia_entertainment
RegionUS
RoleAll marketers
Channelsocial
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US adults: 55% share of adults receiving news from social media. Source: mediaheroes.com.au (2021). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/us-adults-news-social-media-55
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