Around three out of five (60 percent of) communications professionals surveyed in Brazil in 2018 said social media were the source of fake news that had affected the companies they worked at. Approximately 28 percent mentioned mass media. Most Brazilians who participated in another survey years later stated that there should be a law obliging social media companies to protect users from fake news.
Main sources of fake news that affected companies according to communications professionals in Brazil in 2018
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Missing percentage points to 100 percent are probably due to rounding.
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