News Use Across Social Media Platforms in 2020
About half of U.S. adults say they get news from social media “often” or “sometimes,” and this use is spread out across a number of different sites. Facebook stands out as a regular source of news for about a third of Americans.

✒ Key takeaways:

  1. More than a third of Americans get news from Facebook regularly.
  2. Some social media platforms are more “newsy” — Twitter is used by 25% of American adults but over half of its users get news on the site regularly; YouTube, on the other hand, is widely used yet a smaller portion of its users turn to the site for news.
  3. Among the platforms surveyed, only Instagram has white adults making up less than half of its regular news user base (about 40% only). Black and Hispanic adults together contributed to around 50%.