* Approximately 2,000 people were surveyed per country.
Originally, the question was asked as follows: 鈥淗ave you seen false or misleading information about the following topics during the past week?鈥
The data represent an average of all the countries surveyed.
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Global consumption of false or misleading news by informational topic in 2022
In a survey conducted in 2022 across 18 countries worldwide, the coronavirus was the news topic on which the global population received the most false or misleading information. Specifically, approximately 50 percent of the study participants reported having been exposed to fake news on this subject. Other topics related to politics and celebrities ranked second and third, respectively.
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