We looked at the experiences and attitudes of the 21% of U.S. adults who regularly get news from news influencers on social ...

Over three weeks studied, a majority of posts on current events or civic issues (55%) by news influencers were about ...

News influencers on TikTok stand out from other sites for having a smaller gender gap and being more balanced in political ...

Social media is vast, with several distinct sites and innumerable accounts spread across them. Because of this complexity, ...

A somewhat higher share of news influencers on the social media site X explicitly identify with the political right (28%) ...

Far more of the site's news influencers explicitly identify with the political right than left, and two-thirds are men.

YouTube news influencers are more likely to explicitly identify with the political right than the left. Few have links to the ...

News influencers on Instagram were less likely than those on other sites to post about politics during summer 2024.

On social media, many news consumers get news directly from journalists and news organizations, including both individual ...

This study explores the makeup of the social media news influencer universe, including who they are, what content they create and who their audiences are.

Almost two-thirds of news influencers are men. And except on TikTok, more influencers explicitly identify with the political right than the left.

Americans’ trust in scientists is slightly higher than it was last year, but remains lower than before the COVID-19 pandemic.