Facebook is still a hugely popular news source in the US, even though users expect the news to be fake

Americans are using Facebook to get their news just as much as they did last year, despite Facebook’s own efforts to de-prioritize news content, and despite the intensifying conversation surrounding misinformation on the platform.

Citing convenience more than anything else, the majority of Americans get news from social media (68%), even though 57% of them also expect it to be largely inaccurate, according to a new survey from the Pew Research Center.

Forty-three percent of Americans get at least some of their news from Facebook, with the second-most popular social media platform for news being YouTube, where falsehoods are a particularly pernicious presence.

Facebook is trying many solutions to fight the scourge that is misinformation, including working with external fact-checkers. But recent data shows that that battle is far from over, and sketchy sources are thriving on the platform, just as they had in the past.