Meta: 3-4% of users’ feeds is #news.
Pew: 31% of American adults say they regularly get news from Facebook.
So either #Meta and Americans define news differently, the small amount of news shared on #Facebook has an outsized impact, or likely, a bit of both.
That said, during the last two multi-hour Facebook outages, direct and total visitors to our legacy local news sites went up.
It’s more evidence that communities will seek out impactful content.
#journalism #socialmedia
Pew: 31% of American adults say they regularly get news from Facebook.
So either #Meta and Americans define news differently, the small amount of news shared on #Facebook has an outsized impact, or likely, a bit of both.
That said, during the last two multi-hour Facebook outages, direct and total visitors to our legacy local news sites went up.
It’s more evidence that communities will seek out impactful content.
#journalism #socialmedia
Galactic Stone 🇺🇦
•People should not get their news from it in any case. Facebook is the place where low-information voters are born and fed.