Business Insider - Editor's note: Social Media Insights will be delivered exclusively to subscribers of Business Insider Intelligence beginning January 2, 2014. Non-subscribers will receive a shorter afternoon version. Sign up for a free two-week trial to BI Intelligence here. Facebook executives have been outspoken lately about turning the News Feed into a modern day "newspaper" that serves as essential morning reading for users. The company even announced changes to its News Feed algorithm so that higher-quality content would rank higher in the Feed. However, before Facebook publicized these major changes to its main product, the social network was already used as a source of news for millions of people. According to a Pew Research study released in November, 30% of U.S. adults said they get their news from Facebook (more than any other social network). What's more, among those who do consume news on Facebook, 34% are between the ages of 18 to 29 and 39% are betwe
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