Journalists on frequency of seeing misinformation U.S. 2022

Published by
Amy Watson,
Jul 15, 2022
According to an online survey conducted in the United States in March 2022, 44 percent of journalists reported that they sometimes came across information that they believed was false or made up when working on a story. Overall, a quarter of U.S. based journalists said that they saw false information fairly often, and eight percent stated they encountered it extremely often.

Frequency of journalists encountering false or made-up information when working on a story in the United States as of March 2022

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Release date

June 2022

Region

United States

Survey time period

February 16 and March 17, 2022

Number of respondents

11,889 respondents

Age group

18 years and older

Special properties

U.S. based journalists

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