News Use Across Social Media Platforms 2016

Two-thirds of Facebook users (66%) get news on the site, nearly six-in-ten Twitter users (59%)... seven-in-ten Reddit users ... Tumblr 31% for the other five social networking sites about one-fifth or less ...
Facebook ... reaching 67% of U.S. adults. The two-thirds of Facebook users who get news there, then, amount to 44% of the general population.....
Of those who get news on at least one ... 64% get news on just one – most commonly Facebook... 26% get news on two ... one-in-ten get news on three or more...
YouTube, Facebook and Instagram news users are more likely to get their news online mostly by chance, when they are online doing other things... A look at the demographics ... while there is some crossover, each site appeals to a somewhat different group... LinkedIn news consumers are more likely to have a college degree than news users of the other four platforms; Twitter news users are the second most likely...
two-in-ten ... also get news from nightly network television ... three-in-ten turn to local TV... half of Twitter and LinkedIn news consumers also get news from news websites and apps, while that is true of one-third of Facebook and YouTube news users.
Of the sites we tracked since 2013, three of eight show an increase in the portion of users who get news there: Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.