While younger users get more news from Facebook, they are less familiar with many sources of news than their older counterparts, the survey found. The survey asked about familiarity with 36 different news sources — ranging from The New Yorker to Breitbart — and millennials had heard of half of the outlets at “substantively lower rates” than the older cohorts.

Conversely, there were only two news sources about which millennials were more aware than their elders: BuzzFeed and Google News. A third of millennials find news on Google News, compared to 18 percent for those in Gen X and 15 percent of baby boomers.

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