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  "id": "pew-21-percent-regularly-get-news-from-news-influencers",
  "slug": "pew-21-percent-regularly-get-news-from-news-influencers",
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  "claim": "About one in five U.S. adults (21%) regularly get news from news influencers on social media (Pew, 2025)",
  "commonly_cited_as": "\"How many Americans get news from influencers?\"",
  "verdict": "verified",
  "verdict_definition": "Primary source found; it says the same thing, the scope matches, and it is reasonably current.",
  "confidence": "high",
  "rating": {
    "value": 5,
    "best": 5,
    "worst": 1
  },
  "origin": {
    "publisher": "Pew Research Center (Pew-Knight Initiative)",
    "title": "News Influencers Fact Sheet (2025)",
    "year": "2025"
  },
  "quote": "About one-in-five U.S. adults (21%) say they regularly get news from news influencers on social media, identical to when we first asked this in 2024.",
  "method": "Pew survey of U.S. adults, Aug. 18–24, 2025; news influencers defined as people with a large following who often post about news or political or social issues.",
  "drift": [
    "None — 38% of adults 18–29 say this, versus 8% of those 65+"
  ],
  "interest": "n/a (nonpartisan research center funded mainly by The Pew Charitable Trusts).",
  "safe_rephrasing": "In an August 2025 Pew survey, 21% of U.S. adults said they regularly get news from news influencers on social media, including 38% of adults under 30.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Pew Research Center — News Influencers Fact Sheet",
      "url": "https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/fact-sheet/news-influencers/",
      "primary": true
    }
  ],
  "kind": "reference_fact",
  "as_of": "Survey Aug. 18–24, 2025",
  "last_checked": "2026-10-16",
  "stale": false,
  "date_reviewed": "2026-10-16",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}