One in five U.S. adults says they regularly get news on TikTok, a share unchanged from last year but well above the 3% recorded in 2020, according to a new national survey from Pew Research Center.
The Pew analysis published Monday found a much sharper age divide: 39% of adults ages 18 to 29 reported regularly getting news on the video app, compared with 25% of those 30 to 49, 11% of those 50 to 64 and 4% of adults 65 and older.
Among TikTok users, rather than all U.S. adults, 53% said they regularly get news there. That was close to the 55% recorded in 2025 and more than double the 22% share in 2020.
How TikTok compares with other platforms
TikTok was used by 37% of U.S. adults in the August survey. YouTube had the broadest reach at 84%, followed by Facebook at 70% and Instagram at 51%. WhatsApp, LinkedIn, Reddit and X had smaller user shares than TikTok.
Among their respective users, 57% of Facebook users and 57% of X users said they regularly got news on those platforms, compared with 53% of TikTok users.
Pew also found 35% of Hispanic adults and 32% of Black adults said they regularly got news on TikTok, compared with 14% each of White and Asian adults. Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents reported doing so at 22%, compared with 15% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents.
What the survey measured
Pew surveyed 5,166 U.S. adults Aug. 24-30 through its American Trends Panel, a nationally representative panel recruited through random sampling. Participants were interviewed online or by phone in English or Spanish, and results were weighted to match national population benchmarks.
The survey questionnaire asked platform users whether they regularly get news or news headlines there. It defined news as information about events and issues beyond friends or family.
The full-sample margin of sampling error is plus or minus 1.6 percentage points, according to Pew's methodology.
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