Facebook Controls What News People Read
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Facebook Controls What News People Read
Michael Frederick III
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Facebook Controls What News People Read
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Facebook Controls What News People Read
Facebook has come a long way from the little social site launched to help us chat and
flirt and cyberstalk friends. It directs web traffic to a large portion of the internet, it also
commands a huge share of mobile advertising. The article “Facebook Controls What News
People Read. That’s A Problem” states that there was new research released on July 14, 2015
by the Pew Research Center with the Knight Foundation which suggested that the social
network’s hold on how we find news is continuing to grow. Approximately 175 million people
take the time to get on Facebook each day.
In a survey of 2,035 social media users, Pew found that 63 percent of Twitter users and
63 percent of Facebook users say they use their accounts to find and read articles.It’s been a
long time since Facebook was primarily a place to interact with friends, but this is the first study
that suggests that most people who use social media are consuming news. This is a large
increase since the year 2013, which is the last time Pew studied news consumption on
facetime. In a short survey, published by Pew in August 2014, it showed that just under half of
the facebook users surveyed said they used the platform to read news articles in a week. In the
year 2013, about 52 percent of Twitter users used it for news articles along with about 47
percent of Facebook users. In the year 2015 it increased to 63 percent for both Twitter and
Facebook. That is a huge increase. Generally, Twitter is used more for news articles. Twitter in
2015 has a 59 percent of users and Facebook has 31 percent in just this year. This growth of ...