B
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55%
55% -- share of adults getting news from social media for US adults (2021)
55% of U.S. adults get their news from social media either often or sometimes.
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Value
55%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2021
Entity
Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Pew Research Center
Primary
Tier B
https://apbweb.com/2021/10/executive-leadership-in-social-media-and-press-relations/ ↗
Source Article
Executive leadership in social media and press relations
Original Research
Pew Research Center
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Methodology
Pew Research Center study, cited in American Police Beat article
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Industrymarketing
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US adults: 55% share of adults getting news from social media. Source: Pew Research Center (2021). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/us-adults-news-social-media-pew-2021
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