** Countries included in 2025: United Kingdom, United States, Germany, France, Spain, Ireland, Italy, Denmark, Finland, Japan, Australia and Brazil.
Question: Which, if any, of the following have you used for finding, reading, watching, sharing or discussing news in the last week? Data for prior to 2025 comes from previous reports.
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Social network usage for news access worldwide 2019-2025
In 2025, Facebook remained the most popular social media network for news worldwide, with ** percent of respondents to a survey held in February that year saying that they had used the platform for news in the last week. On the other hand, TikTok news consumption is on the rise—in 2025, it was *** times higher than in 2020, when it stood at just *** percent.
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Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. (June 17, 2025). Share of consumers who used selected social media networks to access news in the last week worldwide from 2019 to 2025 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved May 07, 2026, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/308447/social-network-usage-news-access-worldwide/
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. "Share of consumers who used selected social media networks to access news in the last week worldwide from 2019 to 2025." Chart. June 17, 2025. Statista. Accessed May 07, 2026. https://www.statista.com/statistics/308447/social-network-usage-news-access-worldwide/
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. (2025). Share of consumers who used selected social media networks to access news in the last week worldwide from 2019 to 2025. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: May 07, 2026. https://www.statista.com/statistics/308447/social-network-usage-news-access-worldwide/
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. "Share of Consumers Who Used Selected Social Media Networks to Access News in The Last Week Worldwide from 2019 to 2025." Statista, Statista Inc., 17 Jun 2025, https://www.statista.com/statistics/308447/social-network-usage-news-access-worldwide/
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Share of consumers who used selected social media networks to access news in the last week worldwide from 2019 to 2025 [Graph], Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, June 17, 2025. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/308447/social-network-usage-news-access-worldwide/
