Trust in news shared on social media in the U.S. 2023
Data on trust in the news reported by selected social media platforms in the United States revealed that as of April 2023, news found on TikTok was considered to be the least trustworthy overall, with 50 percent of respondents saying they did not trust news they encountered on the platform. Facebook, X, and YouTube fared the best in terms of trustworthy news content, with over 20 percent of respondents saying they felt the reporting they saw on these sites was reliable.