The statistic shows the confidence in telling when a news source is reporting factual news and when it is providing opinion or commentary on the news among consumers in the United States in 2017. During the survey, 50 percent of respondents stated that there were enough sources to sort out facts.
How confident are you that you can tell when a news source is reporting factual news and when it is providing opinion or commentary on the news?
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Knight Foundation. (January 23, 2018). How confident are you that you can tell when a news source is reporting factual news and when it is providing opinion or commentary on the news? [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved September 20, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/802991/confidence-sorting-out-factual-news-us/
Knight Foundation. "How confident are you that you can tell when a news source is reporting factual news and when it is providing opinion or commentary on the news? ." Chart. January 23, 2018. Statista. Accessed September 20, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/802991/confidence-sorting-out-factual-news-us/
Knight Foundation. (2018). How confident are you that you can tell when a news source is reporting factual news and when it is providing opinion or commentary on the news? . Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: September 20, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/802991/confidence-sorting-out-factual-news-us/
Knight Foundation. "How Confident Are You That You Can Tell When a News Source Is Reporting Factual News and When It Is Providing Opinion or Commentary on The News? ." Statista, Statista Inc., 23 Jan 2018, https://www.statista.com/statistics/802991/confidence-sorting-out-factual-news-us/
Knight Foundation, How confident are you that you can tell when a news source is reporting factual news and when it is providing opinion or commentary on the news? Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/802991/confidence-sorting-out-factual-news-us/ (last visited September 20, 2024)
How confident are you that you can tell when a news source is reporting factual news and when it is providing opinion or commentary on the news? [Graph], Knight Foundation, January 23, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/802991/confidence-sorting-out-factual-news-us/