Facebook and YouTube still biggest for news on social media
Despite changes in the media business, Facebook and YouTube keep their position as sources for news. 30% of US adults say they regularly get news on Mega-owned Facebook and. slightly fewer (26%) regularly get news on Alphabet-owned YouTube. Half of adults get news at least sometimes from social media, according to a US fact sheet from Pew Research Center.
Smaller shares regularly get news on Instagram (16%), TikTok (14%), X (12%) or Reddit (8%). Even fewer regularly get news on Nextdoor (5%), LinkedIn (5%), Snapchat (4%), WhatsApp (3%) or Twitch (1%).
Seven-in-ten say they have seen or heard something about the renaming of Twitter as X. Elon Musk changed the Twitter name to X in July 2023.
“Some social media sites – despite having relatively small overall audiences – stand out for having high shares of users who regularly go to the site for news. For example, roughly half of users on X (53%) get news there. On the other hand, only 15% of Snapchat users regularly get news on the app.”
Women make up a greater portion of regular news consumers on Nextdoor (66%), Facebook (62%), Instagram (59%) and TikTok (58%), while men make up a greater share on sites like Reddit (67%), X (62%) and YouTube (58%).
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