Mobile Myanmar: The Impact of Social Media on Young People Living in Conflict-Affected Regions of Myanmar News on social media Overall, 58.0% of respondents indicated that they use social media to read about current events news. Gender differences were minimal, however IDP respondents were significantly more likely to use social media to read news (84.5%), compared to rural (42.9%) and urban respondents (49.6%). Facebook was by far the most common app identified for reading news by those who use social media for news (83.5% overall and 100% among Kayah Rural respondents). The proportion of participants who read news on social media for each sub-sample is shown in Figure 5 (broken down by Facebook and ‘other’). Figure 5: Social media used to read news 90% 80% Other, 15.9% 70% 60% Other, 11.9% 50% 40% 30% Facebook, 52.4% 20% 10% Other, 0.0% Facebook, 42.9% Other, 5.8% Facebook, 68.7% Facebook, 30.7% 0% Kayah Urban Kayah Rural Rakhine Urban Muslim IDP Around one third of the overall sample (34.2%) indicated that they get more news from using social media apps compared to traditional media (newspapers, TV, radio), with the proportion highest for IDP respondents (45.3%). Just over half of the overall sample indicated that they get about the same amount of news from social media and traditional media (53.4%), with the proportion highest for urban respondents (61.3%). Rural respondents had a much higher proportion report that they got most of their news from traditional media (31.0%), compared to IDP (13.2%) and urban respondents (7.2%). 90