Report | November 18, 2024 X Facebook Threads LinkedIn WhatsApp Share America’s News Influencers Appendix B: Detailed tables for analysis of sample of news influencers By Galen Stocking, Luxuan Wang, Michael Lipka, Katerina Eva Matsa, Regina Widjaya, Emily Tomasik and Jacob Liedke Table of Contents America’s News Influencers 1. Americans’ experiences with social media news influencers 2. How we created a list of popular news influencers, and where they post 3. A profile of news influencers: Gender, politics and more 4. How news influencers who have worked for news organizations differ from those who haven’t 5. A closer look at the topics of news influencers’ posts 6. News influencers on Facebook 7. News influencers on Instagram 8. News influencers on TikTok 9. News influencers on X (formerly Twitter) 10. News influencers on YouTube Acknowledgments Methodology Appendix A: News influencers studied Appendix B: Detailed tables for analysis of sample of news influencers Appendix C: Detailed tables for analysis of sampled posts from news influencers Appendix D: GPT-4 Topic classification instructions Appendix E: Validation of GPT-4 topic classification For our latest survey data about news influencers, read the “News Influencers Fact Sheet.” Next: Appendix C: Detailed tables for analysis of sampled posts from news influencers ← Prev Page 1 … 13 14 15 16 17 18 Next Page → Report PDFToplineQuestionnaireVideo: What is a news influencer?American Trends Panel Wave 150
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