WhatsApp increasingly popular for sharing news
by Jim Waterson from Technology | The Guardian on (#3S8N8)
Reuters Institute report found that use of WhatsApp for news has almost tripled since 2014
The public is increasingly forgoing Facebook as a news source and using WhatsApp to share and discuss stories with friends and family, according to a new report on the state of the media.
"Consumers are being put off by 'toxic' debates and unreliable news. They are also finding that alternative networks offer more convenience, greater privacy and less opportunity to be misunderstood. As a result they are moving discussion to messaging apps where they can be sure they are talking to 'real friends'," says the report from the University of Oxford's Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
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