In 2021, the leading news source which respondents to a survey in the United Kingdom reported using the most was BBC One, with 62 percent of participants aged 16 or older saying that this was the source they used for news nowadays. Facebook was the most popular social network for news, whereas WhatsApp and Instagram fared less well in this regard.
Leading news sources in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2013 to 2021
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Ofcom. (2021). Leading news sources in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2013 to 2021. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: July 05, 2022. https://www.statista.com/statistics/266709/leading-news-sources-in-the-uk/
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