How Americans consume news on social media varies widely.

Social media is a major part of Americans’ news diets. Half of U.S. adults say they sometimes get their news from social media in general, but specific platforms vary widely in structure, content, and culture.

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Most Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok users said that getting news was not the reason they used those sites. However, X (formerly Twitter) was an exception: Most X users said that getting news was their main or secondary reason for using the platform, and about half said they regularly read news there.

However, people still consume news on all four platforms, especially through opinion-based or humorous content. A majority of users on all four sites said they saw people expressing opinions about current events and humorous posts that reference current events. Overall, more people viewed these types of posts than news articles or breaking news, although many people also viewed these types of content (especially on X and Facebook).

News on each platform comes from a variety of sources. People who regularly get news on Facebook and Instagram are more likely to get news from friends, family, and acquaintances than those on TikTok and X. More people get news from influencers or other people they don’t know on TikTok than on other platforms. News agencies or journalists are more common sources of news on X than any other site.

Most said they saw news on that platform that seemed inaccurate at least sometimes. This included about a quarter or more on each of these sites who said they saw inaccurate news extremely or quite often.

Aside from X, most users on each platform don't get news there regularly, but the majority do encounter news in some form. Facebook outpaces all other social media sites as a news source for Americans, with 30% of US adults saying they regularly get news there, compared to 16% on Instagram, 14% on TikTok, and 12% on X.

These are some of the key findings from a new Pew Research Center survey of about 10,000 U.S. adults, conducted in March.

Ngoc Anh (according to PewResearch)

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