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Since the turn of the century, Sweden has gone from a country where the majority attended a religious ceremony at least once a year to a country where only 30 percent of the population has personal experience with organized religion. The process of secularization has also been accompanied by changes in the media landscape. With the decline of organized religion, a literature on how the Internet is used to develop and spread religiosity has found that religion is encountered in news and social media interactions. To contribute to this literature, this study examines the use of online resources among groups with different religious and socioeconomic backgrounds in Sweden. It compares the extent to which the Internet is used to read news, find information, or use social media among Swedes who identify as Christian, Muslim, and secular.