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A TikTok creator does interviews in New York City\u2019s Washington Square Park on Jan. 17, 2025. (Alex Kent\/Getty Images)<\/p>\nA TikTok creator does interviews in New York City\u2019s Washington Square Park on Jan. 17, 2025. (Alex Kent\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n
TikTok is primarily known for short-form video sharing, but it has also become a common place for many people to get news. A fifth of U.S. adults regularly get news on TikTok, according to a Pew Research Center survey from August. That share is unchanged from 2025 but up from just 3% in 2020.<\/p>\n
Younger adults are far more likely than older adults to regularly get news on TikTok<\/p>\n
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Note: The other response option was \u201cNo, I don\u2019t regularly get news on this.\u201d Only respondents who indicated that they use TikTok were asked if they regularly get news there.<\/p>\n
Source: Survey of U.S. adults conducted Aug. 24-30, 2026.<\/p>\n
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TikTok is increasingly a place for news, especially among young U.S. adults<\/p>\n
% of U.S. adults who say they regularly get news from TikTok, by age group<\/p>\n
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Younger adults are especially likely to regularly get news on TikTok. Among Americans ages 18 to 29, around four-in-ten (39%) say they do this regularly. That compares with 25% of those ages 30 to 49, 11% of those ages 50 to 64 and 4% of those ages 65 and older.<\/p>\n
Black and Hispanic Americans are more likely than White and Asian Americans to get news on TikTok. Roughly a third of Black (32%) and Hispanic (35%) adults regularly get news there, compared with 14% of both White and Asian adults.<\/p>\n
About this research<\/p>\n
We have updated this Pew Research Center analysis annually for the last few years to track the emergence of TikTok as a news source among Americans.<\/p>\n
Why did we do this?<\/p>\n
The Center regularly studies the platforms<\/a> and social media sites<\/a> Americans use to get news. This analysis is part of a broader effort to understand the changing ways Americans get news in the digital age and continues our work on news consumption online<\/a>.<\/p>\n How did we do this?<\/p>\n We surveyed 5,166 U.S. adults from Aug. 24 to 30, 2026. Everyone who took part is a member of the Center\u2019s American Trends Panel<\/a>. The survey is designed to represent the views of all U.S. adults. Read more about how we use our National Public Opinion Reference Survey<\/a> (NPORS) to weight our social media data.<\/p>\n Here are the questions<\/a> used for this analysis, the topline<\/a> and the survey methodology<\/a>.<\/p>\n There are also partisan differences. Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents (22%) are slightly more likely than Republicans and GOP leaners (15%) to regularly get news on TikTok.<\/p>\n TikTok is one of the more widely used social media platforms in the United States. Overall, 37% of Americans say they use TikTok. That trails the shares who use YouTube (84%), Facebook (70%) and Instagram (51%). But more U.S. adults say they use TikTok than WhatsApp (33%), LinkedIn (31%), Reddit (25%) or X (18%).<\/p>\n Looking specifically at U.S. adults who use TikTok, 53% say they regularly get news on the platform. That\u2019s about the same as the share who said this in 2025 (55%) but well above the 22% who did so in 2020. Today, the share of TikTok users who get news there is similar to the shares of Facebook users (57%) and X users (57%) who regularly get news on those sites, and higher than the shares among users of other social media platforms.<\/p>\n About half of U.S. adult TikTok users get news there, up from 22% in 2020<\/p>\n % of each social media site\u2019s users who say they regularly get news there<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t Note: The other response option was \u201cNo, I don\u2019t regularly get news on this.\u201d Only respondents who indicated that they use each site were asked if they regularly get news there.<\/p>\n Source: Survey of U.S. adults conducted Aug. 24-30, 2026.<\/p>\n PEW RESEARCH CENTER<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tShare on X<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tShare on Facebook<\/p>\n About half of U.S. adult TikTok users get news there, up from 22% in 2020<\/p>\n % of each social media site\u2019s users who say they regularly get news there<\/p>\n FacebookYouTubeInstagramTikTokX (Twitter)RedditNextdoorLinkedInWhatsAppRumbleTruth SocialBluesky20205432282259421513202147302729553914142022443029335337231310202343323443533828171220244837405259332714164857202553414155573533154955382026574146535735452016535539<\/p>\n Note: The other response option was \u201cNo, I don\u2019t regularly get news on this.\u201d Only respondents who indicated that they use each site were asked if they regularly get news there.<\/p>\n Source: Survey of U.S. adults conducted Aug. 24-30, 2026.<\/p>\n PEW RESEARCH CENTER<\/p>\n ChartData<\/p>\n Download ImageShare<\/p>\n Note: This is an update of a post originally published Nov. 15, 2023. 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