According to a survey conducted in the United Kingdom in 2023, Facebook was the most popular social media platform for consuming local news for ** percent of respondents. Twitter outranked Facebook as the top used social media platform when it came to breaking news and UK news, with a share of ** percent and ** percent respectively. However, Instagram, TikTok, and Snapchat were the most used platforms for celebrity news.
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