Author: Helen Coster
(Reuters.
A week after 2025. January The US president’s inauguration said more Americans received their news from social and video networks than TV and news sites and programs – the first time the shift occurred, the report said.
Traditional US news media is increasingly at risk of eclipping online personalities and creators, the Reuters Journalism Research Institute said in its annual digital news report, which is based on an online survey of nearly 100,000 people in 48 markets, including the US.
This trend is particularly acute among young Americans. The report found more than half of people under 35 under the age of 35 in the US. In all countries interviewed by the report, 44% of people aged 18-24 said these networks were their main source of news.
One -fifth of the selected American group a week after the president’s inauguration faced Podcaster Rogan news or comments. Carlson now generates content in various social media and video networks.
During that period, the best creators also included Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens and Ben Shapiro’s political right, while Brian Tyler Cohen and David Pakman on the left. The vast majority of the most followed commentators who are discussing politics are men found in the report.
“These are not just large numbers in themselves,” wrote Nic Newman, Oxford, UK Reuters Institute of Journalism, Senior Research Fellow. “These creators also attract the audience that traditional media are trying to achieve. Some of the most popular personalities in the index with young men, with a right -handed audience, and with those with low confidence in the main media, see them as a biased or liberal elite.”
Despite its popularity, online influencers and personalities are considered to be the greatest sources of false or misleading information around the world along with politicians, presented in the report. In the United States, politicians are considered the greatest sources of false or misleading information.
More than 70% of Americans say they are still worried about their ability to say what’s true from what is wrong when it comes to news online, similar proportion last year. This is compared to 58% in all interviewed markets.
PG is another new topic of news use, especially for young people. The 15% of respondents up to 25 years depends on AI’s conversation programs and interfaces compared to 7% of all respondents found in a report.
Chatgpt was the most mentioned AI service for the news, followed by Google Gemini and Meta Ai.
This trend is a concern about the potential loss of the transmission of search transmission to publisher websites and programs, as Chatboots eliminates the need for users to click on the story link.
Text remains the most desirable way to use people worldwide to use news, although about a third says they want to watch the news online, and 15% say they want to listen.
Younger people are much more likely to watch or listen to the news.
Social media platform X, formerly Twitter, is also becoming a more popular news source in the US, especially among right -wing men and young men, and 23% of selected Americans use news there – more than 8 percentage points since last year. Competitors’ networks such as Threads, Bluesky and Mastodon are trying to gain attraction worldwide and reach 2% or less news for news.
The level of trust in markets is currently 40 percent stable and the last three years have not changed, with a report found in the report.
The Reuters Institute of Journalism is funded by the Thomson Reuters Foundation, Thomson Reuters philanthropic hand.
(New York Helen Coster Messages. Edited by Kenneth Li and Rosalba O’Brien)