6. News influencers on Facebook
Far more of the site’s news influencers explicitly identify with the political right than left, and two-thirds are men.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Far more of the site’s news influencers explicitly identify with the political right than left, and two-thirds are men.
YouTube news influencers are more likely to explicitly identify with the political right than the left. Few have links to the news industry.
This report – a study of popular news influencers – uses three different research components and methodologies, including a nationally representative survey of U.S. adults conducted through Pew Research Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP), as well as an analysis of news influencers and posts from those accounts from three distinct time periods in 2024. This […]
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The share of adults who say they regularly get news from TikTok has grown about fivefold since 2020, from 3% to 17% in 2024.
Eileen Yam and Giancarlo Pasquini contributed to this chapter. Five years after the pandemic began, Americans largely see COVID-19 through the rear-view mirror. Overall, they don’t feel the virus is nearly as much of a danger as they did in 2020. Still, deep political divides persist about the disease. Democrats and Republicans aren’t on the […]
News influencers on TikTok stand out from other sites for having a smaller gender gap and being more balanced in political leanings.
News influencers on Instagram were less likely than those on other sites to post about politics during summer 2024.
News influencers on the site are more likely to explicitly identify with the political right than left. They’re also much more likely to be men.
How Americans get news has greatly changed in the 21st century. Most now use digital devices for news at least sometimes. Read about the platforms they turn to.
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