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Has Social Media Ruined the News Landscape?

In recent months, public pressure on Facebook and other social media platforms has been mounting to assume some degree of responsibility in the efforts to contain the spreading of false information or "fake news". In fact, more and more people are questioning whether the benefits of social media in its current form outweigh the problems associated with it. According to a , published earlier this year, the majority of Americans think that the effect of social media on the U.S. news landscape has been negative over the past 10 years, with 58 percent of the respondents stating that it has become “harder to be well-informed because people have to sort through lots of information to determine what is true or important”.

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This chart shows what U.S. adults think about the impact of new sources of information on the U.S. news environment over the past 10 years

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