民調：美國社交媒體新聞消費增長放慢

About two-thirds of American adults say they occasionally get their news from social media, according to a survey released Monday by the Pew Research Center.

The number is 1 percent more than last year, indicating a slowdown in the growth of news consumption on social media.

Despite the popularity of social media, 57 percent said they expected the news they received on these platforms to be inaccurate.

Republicans were far more negative than Democrats about social media news, with 72 percent saying they expect it to be inaccurate. Forty-six percent of Democrats and 55 percent of independents reported feeling the same. Pew surveyor Katerina Eva Matsa said this falls in line with years of research on political attitudes toward news media in general.

"We've seen stark differences between Republicans and Democrats when it comes to the perception of fairness, the media's watchdog role, trust toward the media," Matsa said.

Despite the partisan breakdown, more people listed accuracy as their greatest concern with news on social media than political bias. Thirty-one percent were concerned with accuracy, while 11 percent worried about political bias.

Facebook remained the dominant platform for online news consumption, with 43 percent of respondents saying they get news there. YouTube came in second with 21 percent, and Twitter third with 12 percent. Other major social media platforms such as Instagram and Reddit scored in the single digits.

Reddit stood out as the site where the highest portion of its users were exposed to news, at 73 percent. Twitter and Facebook came in second and third respectively, with 71 percent and 67 percent.皮尤研究中心週一公佈的一項調查顯示，大約三分之二的美國成年人表示他們偶爾會從社交媒體上獲取新聞。

這一數字比去年增加了1％，顯示社交媒體新聞的消費增長放緩。

儘管社交媒體受歡迎，但57％的受訪者認爲在這些平臺上收到的新聞不準確。

共和黨人遠比民主黨人對社交媒體新聞的看法更爲負面，他們中有72％的人認爲那些新聞不準確，相比之下有46%的民主黨人和55％的獨立人士有同樣看法。皮尤民調員Katerina Eva Matsa表示，這與多年來對新聞媒體政治態度的研究一致。

她說：“我們看到共和黨人和民主黨人在媒體是否公平，媒體的監督作用以及他們對媒體的信任度等方面存在明顯差異。”

儘管存在黨派分歧，更多的受訪者更注重社交媒體新聞的準確性，而不是政治偏見。 有31％的人擔心新聞的準確性，只有11％的人擔心政治偏見。

Facebook仍然是在線新聞消費的主要平臺，43％的受訪者表示他們在那裏獲取新聞。 YouTube排名第二，佔21％，Twitter排名第三，佔12％。 Instagram和Reddit等其他主要社交媒體平臺均佔個位數的百分比。

Reddit因其用戶接觸到新聞的比例最大而脫穎而出，佔73％。 Twitter和Facebook排名第二和第三，分別爲71％和67％