Naman Ramachandran Instagram, TikTok and YouTube are now the preferred mode of news consumption for British teenagers, a report by U.K.
media regulator Ofcom has found.Ofcom’s News Consumption in the U.K. 2021/22 report reveals that for the first time, Instagram is the most popular news source among teenagers, used by 29%.
TikTok and YouTube are close behind, used by 28% of teenagers to follow news. BBC One and BBC Two — historically the most popular news sources among teens — have been knocked off top spot down to fifth place, below the ITV news cluster.
Some 24% of teens 24% use these channels for news in 2022, compared to 45% five years ago.The proportion of teenagers using Instagram’s sister brand Facebook for news has decreased to 22% from 27% last year, and from 34% in 2018.
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