This study examines the use of embedded tweets in online news media. In particular, we add to the previous literature by exploring embedded tweets across reliable and unreliable news outlets. We use a mixed-method analysis to examine how the function and frequency of embedded tweets change across outlet reliability and news topic. We find that, no matter the outlet reliability, embedded tweets are most often used to relay the opinions of elites, to syndicate information from another news source, or to self-cite information an outlet previously produced. Our results also show some notable differences between reliable media and fringe media's use of tweets. Namely, fringe media embed tweets more and use those tweets as the source of news more than reliable media. Our work adds to the literature on hybrid media systems and the normalization of social media in journalism.

翻译：本研究探讨了在线新闻媒体中嵌入推文的使用情况。具体而言，我们通过分析可靠与不可靠新闻媒体中的嵌入推文，拓展了现有文献。采用混合方法分析，我们考察了嵌入推文的功能与频率如何随媒体可靠性和新闻主题而变化。研究发现，无论媒体可靠性如何，嵌入推文最常见的作用是转达精英观点、整合来自其他新闻来源的信息，或自我引用该媒体此前发布的内容。我们的结果还揭示了可靠媒体与边缘媒体在使用推文方面的一些显著差异：相较于可靠媒体，边缘媒体更频繁地嵌入推文，并更多将其作为新闻来源。本研究为混合媒体系统以及社交媒体在新闻业中的常态化相关文献做出了贡献。