A 2026 survey conducted in the United States found that 50 percent of Republicans said they saw information they believed to be false or misleading every day. Democrats and Independents were overall less likely to say they saw false information regularly.
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YouGov. (June 24, 2026). Frequency of seeing false or misleading information online among adults in the United States as of May 2026, by party ID [Graph]. In ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ. Retrieved July 24, 2026, from /statistics/1462058/false-news-consumption-frequency-us-by-politics/
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Frequency of seeing false or misleading information online among adults in the United States as of May 2026, by party ID [Graph], YouGov, June 24, 2026. [Online]. Available: /statistics/1462058/false-news-consumption-frequency-us-by-politics/
