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The TikTok logo appears on a smartphone screen in the Apple app store in this photo illustration in Ontario, Canada, on February 19, 2026. (Photo by Thomas Fuller/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

8 facts about Americans and TikTok

In the wake of TikTok’s deal to make its U.S. operations backed largely by non-Chinese investors, here’s what we know about Americans and TikTok.

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    The social media landscape

    Lee Rainie was asked to present about the state of social media, in particular how non-profit groups might think about using social media to promote their missions. He cites the newest data from Pew Internet Project surveys and describes how the “…

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    Medicine 2.0: Peer-to-peer healthcare

    Peer-to-peer healthcare is a way for people to do what they have always done – lend a hand, lend an ear, lend advice – but at internet speed and at internet scale.

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    Medicine 2.0

    The internet provides access not only to information, but also to each other, and Pew Internet’s research documents how this has transformed the health communications landscape over the last 10 years.

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    Peer-to-peer Healthcare

    The internet provides access not only to information, but also to each other, and this has transformed the health communications landscape over the last 10 years.

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    71% of online adults now use video-sharing sites

    Fully 71% of online Americans use video-sharing sites such as YouTube and Vimeo. Rural internet users have caught up to others in their use of these sites, and minorities are more likely than whites to visit them.

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    The Mobile Difference

    Lee Rainie will discuss the Project’s latest findings about how people use mobile devices, and how the changing media ecosystem is affecting the way people receive, share, and create information.

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