About two-thirds (64%) of US adults use the site, and half of these users get their news there, which is 30% of the general population. So thirty percent of the US population gets their news from a social media site, and as many of us know, the "news" shared by thousands of people every day on Facebook is far from reliable. Unfortunately, according to the same Pew Research Center article, most of the news shared on Facebook is entertainment-related. Youtube and Twitter are in second place when it comes to news