According to a 2021 survey among social media users in Brazil, around ** percent of respondents claimed to have encountered fake news via Facebook. WhatsApp was mentioned by other ** percent of interviewees, while only ** percent named its direct competitor Telegram as a platform where they had come across fake news content. Additionally, ** percent of the survey respondents considered Facebook as their main social media for political information.
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