Consumer interest in news sources on social media in in the U.S. 2021

A study held in the United States in early 2021 found that mainstream news outlets and journalists were the news source paid most attention to among social media news consumers, with 37 percent of Twitter users citing these as their main focus when getting news via the platform, and over 20 percent of Facebook and YouTube news users said the same. However, 18 percent of respondents using YouTube for news said that they paid most attention to internet personalities when finding news there, and 17 percent looked most at news content posted by ordinary people.

一项于2021年早期在美国进行的调查研究显示，在社交媒体新闻消费者中，主流新闻媒体和记者是他们最为关注的新闻来源，其中37%的推特用户将此作为其通过该平台获取新闻的主要焦点，超过20%的Facebook和YouTube新闻用户亦持有相同观点。然而，在YouTube新闻用户中，有18%的受访者表示，他们在寻找新闻时最为关注的是网络红人，而17%的受访者则更倾向于关注普通民众发布的新闻内容。