LONDON: Social media has emerged as a leading source of news among online users who increasingly access it on their smartphones, a thinktank said, warning that the embrace of free news was becoming a challenge for publishers of quality news.
More than half of online users get their news from Facebook and other social media platforms, refusing to pay for news and using ad-blocking, which hurts publishers' revenue, the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) said.
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