A growing share of U.S. adults regularly get their news from TikTok, a trend driven by a surge in the platform’s popularity among adults under 30, according to a new analysis from the Pew Research Center.
The share of respondents who say they regularly get news from TikTok is at 17 percent, up approximately five-fold from 2020, when only 3 percent said the same, according to an analysis published Tuesday from a survey conducted July 15-Aug. 4.
Since 2020, every age group has seen a bump in those who say they get news regularly from the platform.
Thirty-nine percent of adults aged 18-29 say they regularly get news from TikTok, up from 9 percent in 2020. About a fifth, or 19 percent, of respondents ages 30-49 regularly get their news from TikTok, up from 2 percent in 2020.
Nine percent of 50- to 64-year-olds get news regularly from TikTok, up from 1 percent in 2020. And among adults 65 and older, 3 percent get news regularly from TikTok, up from less than a percentage point in 2020.
And more Americans turn to TikTok for news, an increasing percentage on the platform are using it for that purpose.
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