News Habits & Media

While 27% of U.S. adults say they have heard of Telegram, only 2% use the alternative social media app for news.

Most think social media has made it easier to manipulate and divide people, but they also say it informs and raises awareness.

With Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential bid now officially underway, here are key facts about Truth Social and its users.

One-in-five federal, state and local candidate tweets in 2022 have mentioned race, abortion, education or the economy.

Half of 18- to 29-year-olds say they have at least some trust in the information they get from social media sites.

While 38% of U.S. adults say they have heard of Parler, just 1% of Americans regularly get news there.

In 2021, 11% of high-circulation newspapers experienced layoffs, compared with three times that share the year before (33%).

In recent years, several new options have emerged in the social media universe, many of which explicitly present themselves as alternatives to more established social media platforms. Free speech ideals and heated political themes prevail on these sites, which draw praise from their users and skepticism from other Americans.

41% of U.S. journalists who are employed at least part time at a news outlet say they would join a union if it were available to them.

55% of journalists surveyed say that every side does not always deserve equal coverage in the news. 22% of Americans overall say the same.