Fake news as a problem for democracy EU 2022

A survey held between January and February 2022 found that 93 percent of respondents from Cyprus agreed that news misrepresenting reality, or false news, was a problem to democracy in general. A similar share of respondents from Malta, Czechia, Greece, and Croatia said the same. Austrians and Romanians were less inclined to believe this to be the case, with under 70 percent of respondents from each of these two EU member states respectively saying that they strongly or somewhat agreed.

Attitudes to whether news or information that misrepresents reality or is false is a problem for democracy in EU member states as of February 2022, by country

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Release date

April 2022

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Survey time period

January 18, 2022 to February 14, 2022

Special properties

responses include those who responded 'totally agree' or 'tend to agree' and 'totally disagree' or 'tend to disagree', and excludes those who answerered 'don't know'

Method of interview

Face-to-face interview

Supplementary notes

Question: Do you totally agree, tend to agree, tend to disagree or totally disagree with each of the following statements? The existence of news or information that misrepresent reality or is even false is a problem for democracy in general.

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