Facebook is not just for viral videos and birthday greetings, according to new data from the Pew Research Center. As Nieman Lab reports, 40% of American adults now regularly get their news on the platform, up from 36% in 2020.
The finding underscores Facebook's continued importance as a news distributor, even as other social platforms compete for attention. The increase of four percentage points over roughly five years indicates that, for a large share of the public, Facebook remains a habitual entry point to current events.
Nieman Lab's write-up relies on a single source — the Pew survey — so there is no independent corroboration in the report. Still, the data offers a concrete snapshot of how news consumption on Facebook has shifted since the last comparable measurement.