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Reliance on Facebook as news source in the Netherlands 2017-2018

Share of respondents who indicate they use Facebook as a source of news in the last week in the Netherlands in 2017 and 2018

The data displays the share of respondents who indicate they use Facebook as a source of news in the Netherlands in 2017 and 2018. In the Netherlands, the use of Facebook for news has decreased between 2017 and 2018. The source mentions this is due to "a specific decline in the discovery, posting, and sharing of news in Facebook", but that the "average Facebook use for any purpose has remained broadly static".

As of 2018, the number of monthly active Facebook users in the Netherlands reached a number of approx. 11 million.

2017 32
2018 29