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📊In this week's chart:
In an open-ended question, we asked U.S. adults who say they regularly get news from news influencers to name the first one who comes to mind for them.
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In this issue of our weekly newsletter The Briefing:
🔥Featured story: Democrats and left-leaning influencers consider media strategy after election
📌In other news: Mississippi judge orders newspaper to remove editorial criticizing public officials
https://t.co/5Hck7aVJr3

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In this issue of our weekly newsletter The Briefing:
🔥Featured story: Musk claims coverage of DOGE is doxxing
📌In other news: White House blocks AP reporter over organization’s use of “Gulf of Mexico”
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TOMORROW, FEB 6, 12pm ET | 21% of Americans say they regularly get news from news influencers on social media. Top news influencers and social media experts break down the latest on this changing media landscape. Sign up: https://t.co/dlFpA8RSQB

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In this issue of our weekly newsletter The Briefing:
🔥Featured story: Chinese company DeepSeek bursts onto the AI scene
📌In other news: Historic New Hampshire newspaper starts journalism fund to direct donations to their newsroom
https://t.co/3qF9PZBfl4

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Do you get news from influencers on social media? You’re not alone. About 1-in-5 Americans say they regularly get news from news influencers – including 37% of young adults.

Sign up for an online discussion on America's news influencers on Feb. 6: https://t.co/dlFpA8RSQB

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📊In this week's chart:
Among U.S. adults who say they regularly get news on TikTok, just as many say they ever get news on the site from influencers or celebrities (68%) as from news outlets or journalists (67%).
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52% of U.S. TikTok users say they regularly get news on the site, yet fewer than 1% of all the TikTok accounts that Americans follow are journalists or news outlets. So, how are Americans getting news on the app? ⬇️ https://t.co/oFySC09M4Z

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In this issue of our weekly newsletter The Briefing:
🔥Featured story: Trump signs executive order to stop “government censorship” on social media
📌In other news: CNN to lay off hundreds of staffers
https://t.co/b0fbUNMTqG

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In this issue of our weekly newsletter The Briefing:
🔥Featured story: TikTok’s U.S. status in limbo
📌In other news: Other platforms TikTok users are turning to
https://t.co/y6ioAVFqcS

[John Gramlich @johngramlich]

As the Supreme Court hears arguments about a possible TikTok ban, this striking chart from @pewjournalism shows that the site has very rapidly become a source of news for many Americans. https://t.co/30h0UfHwMQ

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📊In this week's chart:
In a summer 2024 survey, half of U.S. adults said they thought it was unlikely that TikTok would be banned in the U.S., while 31% said it was likely. Another 19% said they weren’t sure.
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In this issue of our weekly newsletter The Briefing:
🔥Featured story: Meta’s changes to its fact-checking process
📌In other news: A look at the app monitoring wildfires in the western U.S.
https://t.co/N7hLrZrg07

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📊In this week's chart:
About one-in-five U.S. adults (21%) say they regularly get news from news influencers, defined as individuals who have a large following on social media and often post about news or political or social issues.
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In this issue of our weekly newsletter The Briefing:
🔥Featured story: Trump’s continued tensions with news organizations
📌In other news: Supreme Court agrees to hear challenge raised against TikTok ban
https://t.co/i7SIxMAN8B

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📊In this week's chart:
About three-quarters of U.S. adults (77%) say news organizations tend to favor one side when presenting the news on political and social issues. Far fewer (22%) believe news organizations deal fairly with all sides.
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In this issue of our weekly newsletter The Briefing:
🔥Featured story: Nevada probate commissioner rejects Rupert Murdoch’s effort to change family trust
📷In other news: Judge blocks Infowars acquisition by The Onion
https://t.co/OBxcA3gsAE

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📊In this week's chart:
In a survey conducted two months before the 2024 U.S. presidential election, 81% of Democrats/Dem leaners said media criticism helps keep politicians from doing things they shouldn’t. 67% of Republicans/GOP leaners said the same.
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In this issue of our weekly newsletter The Briefing:
🔥Featured story: Australia bans social media for children under 16
📷In other news: Stanford supports prosecution of student reporter who covered campus protests
https://t.co/RKKf7UnrcL

[John Gramlich @johngramlich]

New @pewjournalism study looks at the emerging world of news influencers on social media: 21% of US adults, including 37% of those under 30, regularly get news from influencers, who are mostly men and more likely to be on the ideological right than left. https://t.co/K1OtDj424a