European News Consumers' Perceptions of Misinformation
2021
This study indicated that news users across ten different European countries are quite concerned about misinformation in their information environment. Respondents were most likely to associate politicians, corporations, and foreign actors with misinformation. They perceived misinformation to be most common for topics like immigration, the economy, and the environment. This offered support for the increasingly more relative and politicized status of facts in people’s credibility perceptions. Yet, differences across sources and issues were relatively modest, and indicated that misinformation can be associated with many different information sources and topics.
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European News Consumers' Perceptions of Misinformation
Source:
Hameleers M, Brosius A, de Vreese CH. Where’s the Fake News at? European News Consumers’ Perceptions of Misinformation Across Information Sources and Topics. Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review 2021; 2 (3). https://doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-70