- When Americans do consume news, the bulk of it is overwhelmingly via TV.
- While everyone is exposed to a significant amount of daily TV news, 44% of the sample is not exposed to any online news at all.

Breakdown of Television versus desktop news consumption

- The bulk of media consumption is not news related, indicating that the reasons that Americans are uninformed about current news is simply because they choose not to inform themselves.

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- Measured in minutes/person.
- Americans devote over 7.5 hours/day on average to media consumption (which includes watching TV, streaming videos or music, gaming, going on social media, or browsing the web).
- Younger Americans spend a greater amount of time on mobile devices and less time watching TV than average; this pattern is reversed for older Americans.

Breakdown of Americans' Media Consumption From January 2016 through December 2018

Allen, Jennifer & Howland, Baird & Mobius, Markus & Rothschild, David & Watts, Duncan. (2020). Evaluating the fake news problem at the scale of the information ecosystem. Science Advances. 6. eaay3539. 10.1126/sciadv.aay3539. 

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