Worldwide, people spent 143 minutes per day on social media in DataReportal’s 2024 analysis.
In Pew’s 2021 U.S. data, 48% of adults got news from social media often or sometimes.
Facebook led U.S. social news use in 2021 at 31%, ahead of YouTube at 22%.
Younger people were more likely to regularly get news on TikTok, Instagram, Reddit and X.
In 2021, Twitter was the most news-oriented platform: 55% of its users regularly got news there.
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