During a survey fielded in Brazil at the beginning of 2020, 49 percent of respondents aged 25 to 34 who consumed news in the 30 days leading up to the survey stated they had accessed news content over WhatsApp during the seven days leading up to the survey.
Share of news consumers who used WhatsApp as a source of news in Brazil in 2020, by age group
The source did not provide information on the age of the respondents. The source also made the following remarks: 1. „As this survey deals with news consumption, we filtered out anyone who said that they had not consumed any news in the past month, in order to ensure that irrelevant responses didn’t adversely affect data quality. This category averaged around three percent.“ 2. „(…) online samples will tend to under-represent the consumption habits of people who are not online (typically older, less affluent, and with limited formal education). In this sense it is better to think of results as representative of online populations who use news at least once a month. “
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Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. (June 15, 2020). Share of news consumers who used WhatsApp as a source of news in Brazil in 2020, by age group [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved July 03, 2020, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/982017/whatsapp-usage-for-news-consumption-brazil-age-group/
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. "Share of news consumers who used WhatsApp as a source of news in Brazil in 2020, by age group." Chart. June 15, 2020. Statista. Accessed July 03, 2020. https://www.statista.com/statistics/982017/whatsapp-usage-for-news-consumption-brazil-age-group/
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. (2020). Share of news consumers who used WhatsApp as a source of news in Brazil in 2020, by age group. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: July 03, 2020. https://www.statista.com/statistics/982017/whatsapp-usage-for-news-consumption-brazil-age-group/
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. "Share of News Consumers Who Used Whatsapp as a Source of News in Brazil in 2020, by Age Group." Statista, Statista Inc., 15 Jun 2020, https://www.statista.com/statistics/982017/whatsapp-usage-for-news-consumption-brazil-age-group/
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Share of news consumers who used WhatsApp as a source of news in Brazil in 2020, by age group Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/982017/whatsapp-usage-for-news-consumption-brazil-age-group/ (last visited July 03, 2020)
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