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News audiences who encountered news or information about climate change they believed to be false in the last week in selected countries worldwide as of September 2022, by platform

Characteristic	Brazil	France	Germany	India	Japan	Pakistan	United Kingdom	United States
Online (inc. social and messaging)	23%	13%	14%	37%	12%	24%	14%	25%
TV news	11%	10%	12%	19%	9%	11%	8%	16%
Social media	14%	8%	7%	25%	6%	15%	8%	16%
Messaging apps	9%	3%	4%	20%	3%	8%	3%	6%
Newspapers	5%	3%	7%	15%	3%	5%	4%	7%
Radio news	5%	4%	5%	10%	1%	3%	4%	5%
Elsewhere	14%	8%	11%	29%	6%	15%	7%	15%

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Release date

December 2022

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

August 26 to September 21, 2022

Number of respondents

see notes

Age group

18-75 years

Method of interview

Online survey

Supplementary notes

Approximately 1,000 respondents from each country.
The category 'elsewhere' included documentaries, blogs, magazines, reports etc which specialized in environmental and/or climate issues, as well as face-to-face/video/telephone conversations with someone the respondent knew, and academic journals.

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According to the results of a global study held in 2022, the group most likely to have encountered news about climate change they believed to be false in the last week were those in India who saw the news on social media. Newspapers and radio news were cited by only a handful of respondents from most countries in the survey, whereas online media (including social media) was generally more problematic, with over 20 percent of news consumers in Brazil, India, Pakistan, and the United States reporting that they believed they saw false climate news there.