I’m old. I primarily watch CNN. During the day I listen to a mix of public radio and political radio on SiriusXM.
According to Pew a significant number of young people get their “news” from social media influencers. Barron Trump knew what he was doing when he opened his father’s eyes to the power of people like Joe Rogan, Theo Von, the Nelk Boys and Dave Portnoy.
What’s a radio?
This comes to mind… 
As someone with “young people” of voting age I do agree with this. I don’t think mine have ever watched CNN and if they are in front of the TV it’s usually with Netflix on. What they do watch is Tik Tok videos, Instagram videos, Barstool, Rogan and they may view “X” every now and then.
It does not appear that the topic of this thread is political (and it does not need to become political).
I am therefore moving this thread out of the PF and into the parent cafe.
My kids 27, 32 and 36 get also do not watch any tv news. Very rarely, like maybe only if there was breaking news.
They get their news from people they follow (and align and trust) on social media and also have online subscriptions to local and national newspapers.
To be honest, I also do not watch any tv news. Nope.
And I think it’s totally fine to get your news from social media - small doses combined for bigger impact.
The problem becomes how much of the social media news is factual?
Social media doesn’t mean you are just following individuals - you can follow CNN, NYTimes, NPR - and/or many of the people who appear on those news sources.
Another example might be following individuals from an org like Crooked Media.
I mean, how much of the televised news is factual. 
Sometimes unsure!
The same can be said for print/broadcast media
OK. Let’s not get political you two. 
. I knew I was setting myself up… Lol.
I don’t think this is true. Many people, even myself (in my 60s), don’t get their news from traditional sources - TV, physical paper, or radio. However, that doesn’t mean we get our new only from social media. There are plenty of places to get news on the internet, of various reliability, which is not social media.
My daughter, 30, dumped her X account last week to switch to Bluesky. She told me, X was filled with politics and she refuses to get her news, political or otherwise, from social media. She loathes influencers of any kind, news or other, and doesn’t follow any.
Based on the news that may be political shared on social media that I see, almost all of it is highly opinionated and not really careful about being truthful and factual (or sometimes just complete lies).
Oh, I wasn’t even thinking of politics. I was actually thinking of The Voice, but a better current example would be Charles III
that’s making an assumption that the social media accounts are of individuals, or influencers, or…whatever. I follow NPR and my local newspaper’s socials, and get news that way.
I’m not sure where my adult children read their news. Good Thanksgiving discussion . However, it is obvious television broadcasting markets to the older crowd. Most ads are pharmaceuticals!
I know one of my sons reads several online mainstream newspapers and network news streams. I know another son gets all his news from Tik Tok. Both in their mid20s.
I don’t know where mine get news. I know it’s not traditional television news since none of them have cable TV.
It depends on the ultimate source of the news. What do I mean? If you are on social media and following a news source (I know, I know, that is problematic, given what is or isn’t news these days seems to be up in the air, too:) like a CNN, NPR, BBC, at least you know the source (or AP, Reuters, etc). A lot of Social Media "news’ that I run across is someone posting an ‘article’ that is them as the source. I hate to tell you the number of times when someone posts something they say is “news”, and when I try to track it down, it turns out the ultimate source (which they don’t cite) is like one post on some website that is definitely biases (and to be be blunt, this is not limited to one side or the other, it is common now with both). One way to tell if a news citing is true is to look at see if anyone else has a story on the same thing, and see how they report it.
I can understand the distrust of media, I stay away from news because quite honestly even sources I once trusted like the BBC have gone off the deep end in many ways from news as I once understood it. It isn’t so much the news has a slant to it (it always did, for the most part, in Europe they never pretended otherwise, especially the UK), but these days it is a lot more than that. It will be interesting to see as they get older and as they hit the real world, when they read something in the ‘new news’, get upset, then find out it isn’t true, how long it will be until they stop trusting that.
Really–my H is an MSNBC fan and almost all of their ads for pharmaceuticals (Humira, Trulicity, Otezla).
Young people that I know get their news from news apps like Apple News. I have never listened to Joe Rogan, but I am told he is a good interviewer.