The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has outperformed traditional media outlets like MSNBC and CNN in terms of social media engagement, with millions of impressions recorded across platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and X. This unprecedented reach was revealed through data obtained by Fox News Digital, which showed that the agency’s online presence surpasses the daily viewership of these legacy media networks. In July, DHS social media accounts registered around 6,395,700 daily impressions, a stark contrast to MSNBC’s average of 502,000 daily viewers and CNN’s 333,000 daily viewers, according to reports and data from Nielson Media Research.
These metrics are derived from internal reports and were corroborated using Sprout Social, a social media management tool. An