A Foolish Take: A Majority of Americans Get News From Social Media

According to a recent report from the Pew Research Center, 67% of American adults now "get at least some of their news" from social media. That's up from 62% in 2016.

Data source: Pew Research Center. Chart by author.

That trend is troubling, since Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), Alphabet's (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google, and Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) have admitted that it's difficult to filter out fake news stories. All three companies were recently implicated in selling ads to Russian operatives, who used their platforms to spread fake stories in order to divide Americans during last year's presidential campaign.

Source: Fool.com