“Facebook is seen as the main channel for spreading false information almost everywhere but messaging apps like WhatsApp are seen as a bigger problem in parts of the Global South such as Brazil and Indonesia,” Nic Newman, senior research associate, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, said in the report.Īlso Read | HC refuses to stay CCI notice to Facebook, WhatsApp in privacy policy matter The report noted that the increased dependency on social media platforms for news consumption has also caused “serious problems with misinformation and hate speech.” More than half of the respondents said they use WhatsApp and YouTube for news consumption.Ībout 59% of the respondents, mainly English-speaking online users in India, used television for news while 82% of them said they consume news through online platforms, including social media. The reason behind the relatively greater use of smartphones than computers for news consumption is because many of the 600 million active internet users access the internet only through mobile phones, aided by low data charges and cheap devices, as per the survey. More than half of the respondents said they use WhatsApp and YouTube for news consumption.(Reuters) According to the global survey, India has emerged as one of the strongest mobile focussed markets, with 73% of users accessing news through smartphones and only 37% using computers. Online platforms like WhatsApp, YouTube, and Facebook are widely used for news consumption in India, according to an annual report by Reuters Institute.
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