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Social networks, online video outweigh traditional media in 2026

Fewer people nowadays get their news from traditional sources like television

PARIS (FRANCE) - News consumers around the world are now turning more to social media and video platforms than traditional outlets for information, a respected report said Tuesday, warning that old-style business models are under threat.

The year 2026 marks "a significant milestone: for the first time, social media and video network consumption is now ahead of other news sources as the most widely used source of news globally", at 54 percent, wrote Jim Egan, lead author of the report from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.

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