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News on social media is a fractured mess, Pew study indicates

Pew Research and the Knight Institute just put out a pair of lengthy reports on how Americans are experiencing news and politics on social media.

Pew Research and the Knight Foundation just put out a pair of lengthy reports on how Americans are experiencing news and politics on social media. Publishers are getting far less traffic from social media, and news is increasingly filtered through influencers, meme creators and random algorithmically-surfaced accounts. The report’s authors don’t draw a conclusion about what this all means in general, let alone in an election year when there is increasing anxiety about the spread of AI-fueled misinformation.

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