Despite Meta’s claims, the public say they get their news from social media

Welcome to Tuesday’s update from Unmade. In today’s members-only post, we share nine takeouts from the latest edition of the Digital News Report launched in Canberra yesterday.

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Local and social – what the public want from news

Once upon a time in a possibly hypothetical scenario, behavioural economists recruited some people for an experiment.

Ahead of time, they told their subjects that there’d be a small reward waiting. The participants were asked to let the researchers know beforehand whether they’d like some chocolate or a piece of fruit. Most people chose fruit.