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Social media now main source of news in US, research suggests

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Summary
Nutrition label

81% Informative

54% of people get news from networks like Facebook , X and YouTube .

Trend for politicians to give time to sympathetic online hosts rather than mainstream interviewers.

Podcaster Joe Rogan was most widely-seen personality, with 22% of population saying they had come across news from him in the previous week .

VR Score

84

Informative language

85

Neutral language

49

Article tone

semi-formal

Language

English

Language complexity

51

Offensive language

not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

short-lived

Source diversity

1

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