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The graph shows the most popular news websites in the United States as of August 2017, ranked by unique monthly visitors. In August 2017, the most visited news website was CNN, with 112 million unique monthly visitors.
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- * Top news sites are selected from comScore's Top 100 digital news properties, all sites represent desktop and mobile site numbers only.
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- United States
- Survey time period
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- * Top news sites are selected from comScore's Top 100 digital news properties, all sites represent desktop and mobile site numbers only.
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