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  "id": "pew-teens-youtube-tiktok-instagram-2025",
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  "claim": "About nine in ten U.S. teens use YouTube; about six in ten use TikTok and Instagram (Pew, 2025)",
  "commonly_cited_as": "\"What social media do teens use?\" / \"90% of teens use YouTube\"",
  "verdict": "verified",
  "verdict_definition": "Primary source found; it says the same thing, the scope matches, and it is reasonably current.",
  "confidence": "high",
  "rating": {
    "value": 5,
    "best": 5,
    "worst": 1
  },
  "origin": {
    "publisher": "Pew Research Center",
    "title": "Teens, Social Media and AI Chatbots 2025 (Dec. 9, 2025)",
    "year": "2025"
  },
  "quote": "YouTube stands out for being used by nearly all teens. Roughly nine-in-ten report ever using it. Teens widely use three other platforms: About six-in-ten or more say they use TikTok and Instagram. A somewhat smaller share say they go on Snapchat (55%). Fewer use Facebook (31%) and WhatsApp (24%).",
  "method": "Pew Research Center survey of 1,458 U.S. teens ages 13 to 17.",
  "drift": [
    "None — U.S. teens 13–17 only"
  ],
  "interest": "n/a (nonpartisan research center funded mainly by The Pew Charitable Trusts).",
  "safe_rephrasing": "Pew Research Center's 2025 teen survey found roughly nine in ten U.S. teens (13–17) use YouTube, about six in ten use TikTok and Instagram, 55% Snapchat and 31% Facebook.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Pew Research Center — Teens, Social Media and AI Chatbots 2025",
      "url": "https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/12/09/teens-social-media-and-ai-chatbots-2025/",
      "primary": true
    }
  ],
  "kind": "reference_fact",
  "as_of": "Published Dec. 9, 2025",
  "last_checked": "2026-10-16",
  "stale": false,
  "date_reviewed": "2026-10-16",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}