Few trust social media as a place to get political and election news % ofU.S adults who political and election news
Few Americans trust Instagram as a place to get political and election news. Just 6% of U.S. adults say they trust Instagram as a place to get political and election news, with a much larger share (42%) saying they distrust it for such information, according to a fall 2019 survey. Some 37% of U.S. adults say they neither trust nor distrust the site for this type of news.
Americans have more distrust than trust in all the social media platforms asked about in the survey. For example, 17% of Americans say they trust YouTube as a place for political and election news, while 36% say they distrust the site. And while 15% of U.S. adults say they trust Facebook for this type of information, a much larger share (59%) say they distrust this platform as a place to get political and election news.
Few trust social media as a place to get  | political and election news  | % ofU.S adults who  | each source as a place to get  | political and election news  | Trust  | Distrust  | Neither  | Not heard  | YouTube  | 39  | 17  | 36  | Linkedin  | 18  | 47  | I  | Re ddit  | 24  | 31  | Facebook  | 15  | 59  | 19  | Twitter  | 48  | 12  | 28  | Instagram  | 42  | 37  | Source: Survey of U.S. adults conducted Oct. 29-Nov. 11, 2019  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 