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1SOCIAL RESEARCH ON NEW MEDIA SOURCE Are social media platform trusted by readers?According to a survey conducted by BT the majority of people do not trust social mediaand are most the time are suspicious of social media. However, social network platforms are vitalfor reporting on the issues of the marginalized communities like the ethnic minorities and thesexual minorities. The Digital News Report of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalismfound that there is high skepticism regarding the news content that is present on the social mediaand 33 per cent comprising of 70, 000 of the consumers have polled in 36 countries that theycannot rely on the news source that is available on the social media [1]. It has been found that the24 per cent of the people are of the view that social media have done an incredible job inseparating fact from fiction as compared to 40 per cent of the people on mainstream media.Although mainstream media is usually not trusted but it is trusted more when it comes toseparating fact from fiction. Due to the trend of fake news in the world of journalism, this is anopportunity for the media house to reestablish the brand value of the mainstream media byfocusing on equality. A recent study has demonstrated that the young consumers are ready areready to pay online for the news according to an annusal study regarding news consumption. Thenews further found that people who are under 35 are willing to pay for high-quality news throughthe news of social media. There has been accusations against the mainstream established newsmedia for resorting to fake journalism. For example, Donald Trump has vehemently attacked themainstream journalism for being biases, partial and showing distorted reality to the people.According to scholars, social media is not dwindling away although people are switching tomore convenient options like the news media app. One of the reasons for staying away fromsocial media is the degree of debates that take place on Twitter and Facebook. However, the

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