A study held in 2024 revealed that 59 percent of X (formerly known as Twitter) users regularly used X for news. By contrast, users of major platforms Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube were less inclined to get their news from those sites, though usage of TikTok for news increased by 30 percent between 2020 and 2024, with the platform especially popular among younger audiences.
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Pew Research Center. (September 17, 2024). Share of social media users who regularly get news from selected social media sites in the United States from 2020 to 2024 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved April 01, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/330638/politics-governement-news-social-media-news-usa/
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