{"id":6445,"date":"2022-07-24T14:39:14","date_gmt":"2022-07-24T12:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/24\/people-get-bored-quickly-how-uk-teens-turned-to-social-media-for-their-news\/"},"modified":"2022-07-24T14:39:14","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T12:39:14","slug":"people-get-bored-quickly-how-uk-teens-turned-to-social-media-for-their-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/24\/people-get-bored-quickly-how-uk-teens-turned-to-social-media-for-their-news\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018People get bored quickly\u2019: how UK teens turned to social media for their news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Ofcom confirms that young people now stay informed through Instagram and TikTok, we meet the online newshounds<\/p>\n<p>In early March, military experts reported that Russian tanks were sporting handwritten \u201cZ\u201d symbols. The letter, thought to be a staunchly pro-war symbol of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/vladimir-putin\" title=\"\">Vladimir Putin<\/a>\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, was soon spotted at Russian bus stops, a school, then on a Russian gymnast\u2019s uniform during a World Cup event at Qatar. On 8 March, 18-year-old TikToker Matt Welland explained the symbol\u2019s meaning and its significance to his 2.4 million subscribers, along with the caption \u201cthe \u2018Z\u2019 symbol is more terrifying than you think\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The scale of the influence of social media personalities such as Welland in disseminating current affairs was revealed last week. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ofcom.org.uk\/__data\/assets\/pdf_file\/0027\/241947\/News-Consumption-in-the-UK-2022-report.pdf\" title=\"\">An Ofcom report <\/a>found that, for the first time, Instagram was the most popular news source among teenagers, used by 29% of them in 2022, while 28% used TikTok and YouTube.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2022\/jul\/24\/people-get-bored-quickly-how-uk-teens-turned-to-social-media-for-their-news\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/9748a6a26e07b2a869b04abfbe139e7156dc48e5\/0_15_5278_3167\/master\/5278.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=137c062003dde5c81208f2a3ad637e80\" title=\"\u2018People get bored quickly\u2019: how UK teens turned to social media for their news\" \/>As Ofcom confirms that young people now stay informed through Instagram and TikTok, we meet the online newshounds<br \/>\nIn early March, military experts reported that Russian tanks were sporting handwritten \u201cZ\u201d symbols. The letter, thought to be a staunchly pro-war symbol of Vladimir Putin\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, was soon spotted at Russian bus stops, a school, then on a Russian gymnast\u2019s uniform during a World Cup event at Qatar. On 8 March, 18-year-old TikToker Matt Welland explained the symbol\u2019s meaning and its significance to his 2.4 million subscribers, along with the caption \u201cthe \u2018Z\u2019 symbol is more terrifying than you think\u201d.<br \/>\nThe scale of the influence of social media personalities such as Welland in disseminating current affairs was revealed last week. An Ofcom report found that, for the first time, Instagram was the most popular news source among teenagers, used by 29% of them in 2022, while 28% used TikTok and YouTube. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Ofcom confirms that young people now stay informed through Instagram and TikTok, we meet the online newshounds In early March, military experts reported that Russian tanks were sporting handwritten \u201cZ\u201d symbols. The letter, thought to be a staunchly pro-war symbol of Vladimir Putin\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, was soon spotted at Russian bus stops, a &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/24\/people-get-bored-quickly-how-uk-teens-turned-to-social-media-for-their-news\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018People get bored quickly\u2019: how UK teens turned to social media for their news<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6445"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}