Lots of accurate news on social media? Nope: That's the mindset of the typical U.S. news consumer in 2018, according to a new Pew Research Center report on news use on social media platforms. 57 percent say they expect the news on social media to be "Largely inaccurate." Convenience, interacting with other people, speed, and timeliness are the top reasons that news consumers like getting the news from social media. Forty-two percent of Democrats say their social media news habits have helped their understanding of current events, compared to 24 percent of Republicans who say the same thing. More than 70 percent of Republicans say they expect the news on social media to be inaccurate; 52 percent of independents and 46 percent of Democrats feel the same. Despite Facebook's leaning away from news responsibility, it is still the dominant social media site for Americans to get news, as it was in 2017. Forty percent of respondents said they get news from Facebook, 21 percent from YouTube, and 12 percent from Twitter. Read more