Do you get hard news from social media?

I have a handful of friends on Facebook who follow a lot of news sites on the Internet, and they share interesting stories on the social site.

I also have many more friends who have accounts with news sites that update the news feed on Facebook mentioning what my friends have been reading.

Some of this gives me insight into what my friends are up to, and some alerts me to hard news that I can read about.

Do you get hard news from social media like Facebook or Twitter?