Facebook Inc (FB) As a Source for News? Sure, In This Part of the World

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In Bahrain, where Google was No. 1, the top overall choice, Al-Jazeera, was 10th at 4 percent of respondents, which placed it as less trusted than Facebook (11 percent), the BBC (8 percent) and even Twitter (8 percent). Over in Tunisia, where Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) won, the only other top-10 overall news sources on the list were ranked 9th and 10th, both with 9 percent (Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya).  Facebook was in the top-10 in four of the eight countries surveyed (tied with the BBC), while Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) was mentioned three times (tied with Twitter and CNN, combined).

What do you think about this research? Do you find yourself getting news items of interest from Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB), and can you see the social network being a source? Would you trust the news you got from facebook? We’d like your feedback in the comments section below.

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