More Older Americans and Nonwhites Are Getting News via Social Networks

74 percent of non-whites get news from social media sites

More Americans aged 50 and up are getting news via social media sites, according to a new study from Pew Research Center.

Pew found that 67 percent of the 4,971 U.S. adults it surveyed between Aug. 8 and 21 get at least some of their news from social media, up from 62 percent in early 2016, with 20 percent saying they do so often.

For the first time since Pew began conducting these surveys, more than one-half (55 percent) of Americans 50 or older said they get news from social networks, up 10 percentage points from last year.

Pew also found that 74 percent of non-whites get news from social media sites, up from 64 percent last year, and the numbers for those with less than a bachelor’s degree were 69 percent and 60 percent, respectively.

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