Social media now main source of news in US, research suggests

Research indicates that social networks and video networks have become the main source of news in the United States, as they exceeded traditional TV channels and news sites.

More than half (54 %) of people get news from networks such as Facebook, X and YouTube – TV exceeds (50 %) and news sites and applications (48 %), according to the Reuters Institute.

“The rise of social media and personal news that is not unique to the United States, but the changes seem to occur faster-and with more effect-than other countries.”

PodCaster Joe Rogan was widely the most popular character, with nearly a quarter of (22 %) of the population they say they encountered news or comments from it in the previous week.

The author of the report, Nick Newman, said that the rise of the social video and the news that depends on the character “represents another important challenge for traditional publishers.”

The institute also highlighted a trend for some politicians to give their time to the online sympathetic hosts instead of prevailing interviews.

She said that popular politicians all over the world “are increasingly able to overcome traditional press in favor of the friendly partisan media,” personalities “, and” influencers “who often get in particular, but they rarely ask difficult questions, with many people involved in publishing wrong or worse accounts.

Despite its popularity, influencers and personalities were named online as a main source of wrong or misleading information by nearly half of people around the world (47 %) – which puts them in the level with politicians.

The report also stated that the use of X for news is “stable or increasing across many markets”, with the largest rise in the United States.

He added that since Illon Musk took over the network in 2022, “many people with right -wing tendencies, especially young people, have flocked to the network, while some progressive fans have left or used it repeatedly.”

In the United States, the rate of recognition of itself has multiplied as three times the right after holding musk.

In the UK, the right -wing fans X doubled.

She stated that competing networks such as topics, Bluesky and Mastodon “only affect a little influence worldwide, with 2 % or less news.”

Other main results about news sources:

• Tiktok is the fastest growing social network and video, used in news by 17 % of people all over the world, with an increase of four percentage points since last year.
• The use of AI Chatbots groups to get news is high, and is twice popular among less than 25 years of population as a whole.
• But most people believe that artificial intelligence will make the news less transparent, accurate and confident.
• All generations still give trusted trademarks with a busy record for accuracy, even if they do not use them often as they did before

The report in its fourteenth year, which included nearly 100,000 people in 48 countries.