U.S. adults opinions of social media AI in detecting false information 2021

According to an online survey conducted in the United States in November 2021, 19 percent of respondents felt that social media companies' artificial intelligence could find false information more effectively than humans could. Overall, a quarter of all respondents said that AI was just as successful as humans at finding false information, whilst 22 percent thought that AI did a worse job than humans. Additionally, over 30 percent of those surveyed reported being unsure.

Opinions of adults in the United States on the ability for social media-owned AI to find false information more effectively than human moderators as of November 2021

Characteristic	Share of respondents
AI does a better job	19%
AI does about the same job	25%
AI does a worse job	22%
Not sure	32%

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Release date

March 2022

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Region

United States

Survey time period

November 1 to 7, 2021

Number of respondents

10,260 respondents

Age group

18 years and older

Method of interview

Online panel

Supplementary notes

Original question: "When it comes to finding false information on their sites, do you think computer programs used by social media companies do..."
According to the source: "responses of 'no answer' not shown
The values may not sum up to 100 percent due to rounding.

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