Hard times are here for news sites and social media. Is this the end of Web 2.0? A steep decline in advertising is forcing a historic shakeup in digital news and social media, and leading some to ...

Power to the people! Sites like Digg, Reddit, Propeller and Mixx have become popular social news sites due to the community driven aspect that fuels ...

This chart shows the share of respondents who used the following social media networks for news in the past week (in percent) ...

Contrast that with Twitter: Twitter is the third-most-popular social media site for news; 71 percent of people who use Twitter get news from the site, and 60 percent of those Twitter news readers ...

— -- With the advent of Web 2.0, news sites have changed, and stayed the same. "Social news" sites like Digg and Mixx let members aggregate their own favorite lists of stories, and vote ...

Nearly two-thirds of American adults – 62%– get news from a social media site, according to a new survey from Pew Research Center. Two in 10, or 18%, report getting news that way often. While ...

Notably, nearly two-thirds (64%) of news consumers on these alternative social media sites said they favor the protection of free speech even if it brings with it some false content, while the ...

Snopes.com's updated list of fake news sites and hoax purveyors for 2017. Snopes Membership. ... was one of the few ostensibly humor-based fake news sites whose items floated around social media.