Relation
Breakdown of News Consumption by Age
- Fake news consumption is only 1% of Americans' daily news consumption.
- In this case, fake news is defined extremely broadly and includes highly biased and hyper partisan news sites.
- Therefore, these estimates of the prevalence of fake news likely overestimate the actual prevalence (although adopting stricter definitions makes no discernible difference).
- Fake news stories are most likely to be found on social media; older viewers are heavier consumers of these stories than younger viewers.
- Majority-fake news consumers do exist but are extremely rare; most of them consume a very small amount of online news of any kind.
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Updated 2021-07-29
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