TikTok is increasingly becoming a news source
by Mia Sato from The Verge - All Posts on (#652MQ)
Nick Barclay / The Verge More and more Americans are getting their news from TikTok, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.
The percentage of people getting news from TikTok has tripled since 2020; around 10 percent of all US adults now regularly get news on the app. For adults under 30, that number jumps to 26 percent.
People already on TikTok are also shifting how they use the app, in this case increasingly as a source of news. One-third of adult users on the app say they get their news on the platform, up from 22 percent in 2020. TikTok becoming more of a news app is in contrast with other platforms, where Pew found that news consumption was stagnant or trending downward. On Facebook, for example, 54 percent of adults on the platform said they were...