9 Faith in social sources.

• Position: STATELINE - Brief article

Legislatures are communicating through social media more and more, and with good reason. Recent studies show that Americans increasingly trust social media as reliable sources for news and information. Nearly two-thirds of voters said political information on social media was of a higher quality or on par with traditional media outlets, according to a survey by the George Washington University Graduate School of Political Management and ORI, a market research firm. More than 70 percent of users younger than 25 had the same or higher...