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At least a fifth of adults in the Philippines, or about 13.9 million people, use Facebook daily for news, according to a poll conducted by Social Weather Stations (SWS).
As many as 40.4 million individuals, or 60 percent, still get their news through television, about 15 percent through radio and only 2 percent read newspapers daily, according to the results of the SWS poll of 1,440 adults conducted recently.
“Facebook as a daily news source is more common than radio and newspapers combined, and is second only to television,†SWS said in a statement.
Half of adult Facebook users who are college and high school graduates read news daily using the social media site, compared with 37 percent among elementary school graduates and 36 percent among non-elementary graduates. About 99 percent of adult internet users in the Philippines have Facebook accounts.
YouTube is the second most popular social media site among adult Filipino internet users, with 38 percent owning an account. Instagram is used by 15 percent of them, Twitter by 8 percent and Viber by 7 percent.
About 31 percent of the estimated 30.4 million Filipino adults who have at least one social media account support or promote posts on political or social issues that others share.