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

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

Our researchers cast a wide net across the most popular social media sites to form an inclusive list of influencers who ...

News influencers on the site are more likely to explicitly identify with the political right than left. They’re also much ...

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

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

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

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

While it’s important to shed light on who these new social media news providers are, a full understanding of the modern news ...

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.