Preferred social media news sources among children in the United States 2017

Preferred social media news sources among children and teenagers in the United States as of January 2017, by age

The data describes data on the preferred social media news sources among children and teenagers in the U.S. as of January 2017, sorted by age. During a survey, 47% of teenage respondents stated that Facebook was the preferred source of news.

Facebook 44 37 47
YouTube 21 41 14
Twitter 11 4 13
Instagram 10 9 10
Snapchat 8 6 9
Reddit 2 1 2
Tumblr 1 1