Online activities carried out in the prior week in the United Kingdom (UK) 2020

The top categories of internet activities carried out in one week in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2020 are ranked here by the share of respondents who reported performing these activities the week before the survey. It was found that after essential tasks such as email, communications, and banking, 50 percent of respondents had used the internet for some kind of social media activity.Facebook as a news sourceAs of February 2020, Facebook was the most popular social networks in Great Britain, with an audience reach at least doubling that of other networks such as Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest. In addition to that, Facebook was also surveyed to be the leading social network where most respondents received or shared news weekly. Comparatively, only half as many respondents relied on Twitter for their news.Trust in social media news Despite its popularity however, there is still a relatively low level of trust in news found on social media with 57.7 percent of respondents surveyed in May 2019 claiming to have come across at least one instance of inaccurate reporting.

本数据集收录了2020年英国网民在一周内进行的互联网活动的主要类别排名，该排名基于在调查前一周内报告执行过这些活动的受访者的比例。研究发现，在诸如电子邮件、通讯和银行等基本任务之后，50%的受访者表示他们使用互联网进行某种形式的社交媒体活动。至2020年2月，Facebook在英国已成为最受欢迎的社会网络，其受众覆盖范围至少是其他网络（如Instagram、Twitter和Pinterest）的两倍。此外，Facebook还被调查为受访者每周接收或分享新闻的主要社交网络，相比之下，只有一半的受访者依赖Twitter获取新闻。尽管如此，尽管社交媒体新闻的普及度较高，但对其信任度相对较低，2019年5月接受调查的57.7%的受访者声称至少遇到过一次不准确报道的情况。