Slightly fewer people are getting their news from social media, thank God
A recent Pew study sees consistent, if not particularly huge, decreases in our reliance on Facebook and other online hellscapes
Well, it’s a start. According a new report courtesy of the researchers at Pew, about a third of all Americans (that’s, let’s see here… sigh… 110 million souls) still say they get the majority of their news from Facebook, although that number has dropped a bit year-over-year. In 2020, around 36% of responders cited the House of Zuckerberg as their main information source, while that number dropped to 31% this past year.
Although 5 percentage points isn’t a whole lot to gloat about, when you factor in just how much time everyone has spent glued to their computers and phones at home over the past 18 or so months, it’s actually pretty encouraging. Pew also found that overall reliance on social media for news sources fell from 5 points, from 53% to just under 48%.