A survey held in the United States in December 2020 found that the biggest impact of fake news on consumers was that they checked facts more thoroughly themselves, with 38.8 percent of respondents saying that they did so as a result of encountering fake news. Others said that fake news had not impacted them personally at all, whereas a little over 15 percent reported reducing their news consumption in general, and over 10 percent stopped getting news from certain outlets.
Impact of fake news in the United States as of December 2020
*Respondents were aged 16 to over 54, with the majority of participants between the ages of 35 and 44 (35.7 percent). The gender split skewed female (53.6 percent).
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Trusted Web Foundation. (January 28, 2021). Impact of fake news in the United States as of December 2020 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved August 25, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1306407/fake-news-impact-us/
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