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In your opinion, how much does the spreading of fake news influence public opinion and vote choice?

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Release date

January 2018

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Region

Italy

Survey time period

January 19, 2018

Number of respondents

800 respondents

Age group

18 years and older

Method of interview

Telephone interviews and online survey

Supplementary notes

The original survey question was phrased by the source as follows: "Quanto, secondo Lei, la diffusione di fake news può realmente condizionare l’opinione pubblica e le scelte di voto?".

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In 2018, about ** percent of Italian adults thought that the spreading of fake news influenced public opinion and voter choice a lot. In the same year, another poll conducted in the country in the same year showed that online fake news was believed to influence the voters’ opinion, according to **** percent of respondents.

News credibility

  Online news seems to have low credibility, especially social media news. In a 2019 survey conducted among Italians aged between 18 and 29 years, ** percent of respondents claimed to often doubt the credibility of news published on social media. In general, users since a long time are aware of the poor reliability of information found on the internet. Back in 2015, **** percent of respondents surveyed in a poll stated they believed that information read online should not be trusted blindly.

News likely to be fake

  Among the different kinds of news, news about politics, economy and the world is most likely to be fake, with ** percent of fake news content spotted in Italy. Science and technology follow with ** percent of not accurate information.