Trust in news shared on social media in the U.S. 2023

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Amy Watson,
Apr 17, 2024
Data on trust in the news reported by selected social media platforms in the United States revealed that as of April 2023, news found on TikTok was considered to be the least trustworthy overall, with 50 percent of respondents saying they did not trust news they encountered on the platform. Facebook, X, and YouTube fared the best in terms of trustworthy news content, with over 20 percent of respondents saying they felt the reporting they saw on these sites was reliable.

Level of trust in news shared on selected social media platforms in the United States as of April 2023

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May 2023

Region

United States

Survey time period

April 3 to 9, 2023

Number of respondents

1,516 respondents

Age group

18 years and older

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