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A growing number of Americans are getting their news from TikTok


And they see it as a source for information they’d be unlikely to find elsewhere.

The survey, released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center, looks at the role major social media platforms — Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and X — play in Americans’ news diets. And unlike other apps, the news users see on TikTok is just as likely to come from influencers or celebrities as it is from journalists — and it’s far more likely to come from total strangers. In April, President Joe Biden signed a bill that would ban TikTok unless its China-based parent company divests from the app within a year.

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