According to business insider, tiktok has replaced other social media competitors as the preferred platform for young people in the united states to access news。
According to the latest survey by the pew research centre, tiktok is currently the most popular news social application in the united states of america among 18-29-year-olds. The application goes beyond the two preferred platforms in 2024 - youtube and instagram。
It house noted that according to the results of the 2025 survey, 43% of young people indicated that they would receive news from tiktok on a regular basis, compared to 41% for youtube and facebook, 40% for instagram, and 21% for social platform x (former twitter) and 18% for reddit。
According to the pew survey, social media accounts for far more than other forms of access to information for the 18-29 age group. Seventy-six per cent of the population in that age group indicated frequent or occasional access to news through social media, compared with 60 per cent and 28 per cent, respectively, through news websites and e-mail news bulletins。
Half of the young people who participated in the pew survey expressed a degree or a high degree of confidence in the content of the social media, a level of confidence that was largely equal to that of the national press。
Tiktok's heat as the main source of news access is rising rapidly. In 2023, only 32 per cent of respondents indicated that they would regularly view the news through this video application。
It should be noted that watching the news on tiktok does not amount to watching video content from traditional media such as the washington post or the national broadcasting corporation news channel. Young people also regard the content of the internet's red comments, as well as the original video of users related to current events (e. G. From war zones or protest sites)。
A group of independent news networks were created to focus on current events, including philip de france, and the creator of the “under-desk” account, vitus “v” spehar。
Some professional news agencies, including the national public radio, planet money, have also started to adopt a similar operating model - focusing the core of video content on specific creators, thereby enhancing trust links with audiences. Business insider interviews show that z generations of social media users are more interested in news creators who are able to convey information in a more realistic and more accessible way。
In addition to the news commentary area, social media creators and podcasters have played an increasingly important role in news gathering in recent months. Politicians and government agencies are turning to the form of podcasts, which reach the population; at last year's national congress of democrats and republicans, the authors of content were visible. In 2025, a number of independent creators had applied to attend the white house press conference。
Tiktok has introduced several news-related features in its application, such as allowing media publishers to add links to their videos and a fact-checking tool called “footnotes”, similar to the “community comment” model. According to its official network, tiktok also collaborates with “an independent fact-checking body of more than 130 global markets to verify the authenticity of the platform's contents”。
