A fifth of U.S. adults now regularly get news on TikTok, up from just 3% in 2020. In fact, during that span, no social media platform we’ve studied has experienced faster growth in news consumption, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis.
TikTok is primarily known for short-form video sharing and is especially popular among teens – 63% of whom report ever using the platform.
But it has also become a popular news source for young adults. In our new survey, 43% of adults under 30 say they regularly get news there, up from 9% in 2020.
There are are the normal outlets like CNN, ABC, ETC and then there are independent journalists or journalists just working in their free time, then there are more trusted accounts that are aggregators or do deep dives into very specific stopics. Then there are a lot of random people saying shit… It’s not the worst place to get news if you have critical thinking skills.