Social media news sources among children in the United States 2017

Share of children and teenagers who get news from selected social media sites in the United States as of January 2017, by age

The data describes data on the most popular social media news sources among children and teenagers in the U.S. as of January 2017, sorted by age. During a survey, 77% of teenage respondents stated that they got news from Facebook.

Social networking sites 76 63 82
YouTube 39 40 39
Facebook 76 76 77
Instagram 37 34 37
Snapchat 37 28 39
Twitter 59 61
No social media sites 10 17 6
Social media sites, but not for news 22 31 17