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Last updated on: 5/14/2020 | Author: ProCon.org

Facebook tops the list of social media news sources about COVID-19

Posted on May 14, 2020 (June 24, 2020) by ProCon.org

Facebook was the primary social media platform source for coronavirus news (35.8% of people surveyed), followed by Twitter (17.0%) and YouTube (16.3%).

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