Facebook is starting to lose its dominant position as the leading social media platform news in the face of competition from TikTok, according to the 2022 Reuters Institute Digital News Report

The proportion of people directly going to news websites and apps to get their news declined from 32% to 23% across the 46 countries surveyed by the Reuters Institute. More people (28%) reported that social media is their main access point to news instead.

Publisher-reader relationships however, remained strong in some countries including the UK. Almost half (46%) of UK respondents of all ages said they accessed news directly from news websites and apps – much higher than the worldwide figure.