30% of Americans get news from Facebook study show.

New York: 30% of Americans get their news on Facebook, and suggests that the social network drives people to media sites who may not have otherwise done so.

Pew Research Center published a study that polled 5,173 adults on their news consumption habits on Facebook. Almost half…47% of adults Facebook users consume news on Facebook, which means about 30 percent of the US.

The study, published by the Pew Research Center on Thursday. Found that almost half of Americans users click on news in their Facebook feeds. Since 64% of adults in the United States use Facebook,

That means one in three Americans consumes news on Facebook.

Entertainment news is the most popular, with 73 percent of Facebook users saying they get news on the topic. Two-thirds of people said they get news from their community.

Event affecting the user’s local community 65%

Sports in third place 57% and politics 55%.

On Monday, Facebook announced that it was driving 170% more traffic to media sites this year than in 2012.