Social Media Surpasses TV, Online Articles as Americans’ Top News Source for the First … – Yahoo

Social media has overtaken TV and websites/apps as a primary news source for the first time, according to a new poll from Reuters and the University of Oxford. Per its findings, 54% of respondents surveyed reported accessing news via social media and video networks in the U.S. in the last week, compared to 50% who accessed TV news and 48% who accessed websites/apps in the same period. The shift is being driven in large part by younger groups, with 54% of respondents between the ages of 18 and 24 and 50% between 25 and 34 saying social media/video networks are their main news source – increases of 13 and 6 points respectively compared to last year. When it comes to specific platforms being used as news sources, Facebook reached 26% of respondents in the last week, followed by YouTube with 21%, Instagram with 16%, WhatsApp with 15%, X with 11%, TikTok with 10%. Other notable sources included Facebook Messenger with 5%, LinkedIn and Telegram with 4% each, Snapchat and Reddit with 3% each, and Threads and Bluesky with 1% each. AI chatbots are also becoming an emerging source of news with a total of 7% usage for news each week
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