Social Media News 7 Social Media Platforms Content Creators Can Use Instead Of Tiktok

Researchers warn that social media is not the best place to get your news fix

A new study analyzing nearly 11 million social posts across major platforms finds users are more likely to click lower-quality news links than credible ones, even from the same person, to the same ... Read More

Journalists are souring on social media platforms, an analysis of 11 years of Nieman Lab predictions suggests

While these predictions suggest that the journalistic community’s enthusiasm for social media platforms has waned over time, there has been no such change in the perceptions of the people actually ... Read More

News creators get more attention in countries where traditional media struggles

A new report highlights how “messy, fragmented, and loosely defined news sources have become for many people.” ... Read More

1 in 5 Americans now regularly get news on TikTok, up sharply from 2020

A fifth of U.S. adults now regularly get news on TikTok, up from just 3% in 2020. In fact, during that span, no social media platform we’ve studied has experienced faster growth in news consumption, ... Read More

Two years after Oct. 7, are social platforms any safer from terrorist hijacking? | Opinion

Hamas’s livestreaming of its massacre of Israeli civilians on Oct. 7, 2023, stands as the most effective hijacking of major social media platforms by a terrorist organization in history. What should ... Read More