More than half online users get news from Facebook, YouTube and Twitter: Study

The survey was carried out online in 26 countries in Europe, Asia, North America and South America. (Reuters) Social media has emerged as a leading source of news among online users who increasingly access it on their smartphones, a thinktank said on Wednesday, warning that the embrace of free news was becoming a challenge for publishers of quality news.
More than half of online users get their news from Facebook and other social media platforms, refusing to pay for news and using ad-blocking,