Digital News Landscape

Pew Research Center’s political typology sorts Americans into cohesive, like-minded groups based on their values, beliefs, and views about politics and the political system. Use this tool to compare the groups on some key topics and their demographics.

About half (48%) of U.S. adults say they get news from social media “often” or “sometimes,” a 5 percentage point decline compared with 2020. More than half of Twitter users get news on the site regularly.

Roughly half of Americans say that they have been getting some (30%) or a lot (18%) of news and info about COVID-19 vaccines on social media.

While newspapers have seen steep job losses from 2008 to 2020, digital-native news organizations have seen considerable gains.

Majorities of Americans support an array of measures to address climate change but stop short of a full break with fossil fuels.

Americans inhabited different information environments, with wide gaps in how they viewed the election and COVID-19.

About half of U.S. adults say they get news from social media “often” or “sometimes,” and this use is spread out across a number of different sites. Facebook stands out as a regular source of news for about a third of Americans.

More than eight-in-ten U.S. adults say they get news from a smartphone, computer or tablet “often” or “sometimes.”

As news outlets morph and multiply, both surveys and passive data collection tools face challenges.

Videos from independent news producers are more likely to cover subjects negatively and discuss conspiracy theories.