As of February 2021, three out of five (60 percent of) internet users surveyed in Mexico said they accessed news on Facebook in the 30 days leading up to the survey. Over one-third (35 percent) of respondents used WhatsApp for the same purpose. The website of Milenio, a Mexican daily newspaper, was the most popular news website in Mexico as of May 2021.
Leading social networks used weekly for news in Mexico as of February 2021
The source adds the following information: "... online samples will tend to under-represent the news consumption habits of people who are older and less affluent, meaning online use is typically over-represented and traditional offline use under-represented. In this sense, it is better to think of results as representative of the online population."
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Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. (June 23, 2021). Leading social networks used weekly for news in Mexico as of February 2021 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved June 30, 2022, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/981906/social-media-platforms-used-weekly-news-mexico/
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. "Leading social networks used weekly for news in Mexico as of February 2021." Chart. June 23, 2021. Statista. Accessed June 30, 2022. https://www.statista.com/statistics/981906/social-media-platforms-used-weekly-news-mexico/
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. (2021). Leading social networks used weekly for news in Mexico as of February 2021. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: June 30, 2022. https://www.statista.com/statistics/981906/social-media-platforms-used-weekly-news-mexico/
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