The Participation Blog

So What’s News to You?

Information is the bedrock of engagement, so where, how and why people acquire information and news is enormously important to the work that we do. Half of the adults in the U.S. get at least some of their news from social media, which should scare the pants off of all of us. At the moment, we’re watching to see how Twitter, one of the social media heavyweights, will evolve with Elon Musk running that show and exerting that much more influence on public perception. Here’s a current snapshot of how and where we consume online information.