A tenth of American Facebook users consider the platform to be a news outlet

A tenth of US Facebook members have labeled the social network as a news, according to a new Pew Research Center study – undermining Facebook’s protestations that it is not a media company.
The same study found that half of all US respondents failed to remember which website they read particular news stories on, highlighting the pernicious ability of fake news stories to infiltrate the wider public consciousness.
A total of 2,000 American adults were quizzed in February last year, wh