About 1/4 of US Adults Get Their News From YouTube, Pew Survey Finds

Twenty-six percent of American adults get news from YouTube, the Pew Research Center reported Monday. The survey of 12,638 adults, done Jan. 6-20, found 66% of YouTube news consumers said the platform’s videos help them “better understand current events,” and 73% “expect them to be largely accurate.” More than half (51%) of YouTube news consumers said “they are primarily looking for opinions and commentary,” Pew said.