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Media Platform & News Trust Survey — January 2017
This repository contains data and analysis supporting the BuzzFeed News article, "Most American Adults Get News From Facebook — But They Don’t Really Trust It, A New Survey Says," published January 19, 2017.
Data
This repository contains the following data from the survey:
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Ipsos's topline calculations, as a PDF.
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Ipsos's spreadsheet of cross-tabulations.
Additional analysis
BuzzFeed News performed additional analysis, to calculate trust among respondents who said they had gotten news from a given platform. You can find the Python code for the analysis in this notebook, which produces these numbers:
Platform | % Mostly/Always Trust* |
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Print newspapers | 74% |
Newspapers’ websites | 69% |
News radio | 68% |
Broadcast TV news | 66% |
Cable news | 65% |
Talk radio | 57% |
Online-only news publications | 55% |
YouTube | 53% |
49% | |
Snapchat | 47% |
27% | |
Social media (generally) | 25% |
* "All of the time" or "Most of the time"
Questions / Comments?
Please contact Jeremy Singer-Vine at jeremy.singer-vine@buzzfeed.com.
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