TikTok is the fastest growing social network in the report, used by 20% of 18- to 24-year-olds for news, up five percentage points from last year.
Trust in the news has fallen by 2 percentage points in the last year, reversing gains made in many countries at the peak of the coronavirus pandemic.
On average, 40% of people say they trust most news most of the time.
Across markets, 56% of people say they worry about identifying the difference between real and fake news on the internet – up 2 percentage points from last year.
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