According to an online survey conducted in the United States in March 2022, 44 percent of journalists reported that they sometimes came across information that they believed was false or made up when working on a story. Overall, a quarter of U.S. based journalists said that they saw false information fairly often, and eight percent stated they encountered it extremely often.
Frequency of journalists encountering false or made-up information when working on a story in the United States as of March 2022
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Pew Research Center. (June 14, 2022). Frequency of journalists encountering false or made-up information when working on a story in the United States as of March 2022 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 24, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1319457/journalists-finding-false-information-us/
Pew Research Center. "Frequency of journalists encountering false or made-up information when working on a story in the United States as of March 2022." Chart. June 14, 2022. Statista. Accessed December 24, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1319457/journalists-finding-false-information-us/
Pew Research Center. (2022). Frequency of journalists encountering false or made-up information when working on a story in the United States as of March 2022. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: December 24, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1319457/journalists-finding-false-information-us/
Pew Research Center. "Frequency of Journalists Encountering False or Made-up Information When Working on a Story in The United States as of March 2022." Statista, Statista Inc., 14 Jun 2022, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1319457/journalists-finding-false-information-us/
Pew Research Center, Frequency of journalists encountering false or made-up information when working on a story in the United States as of March 2022 Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1319457/journalists-finding-false-information-us/ (last visited December 24, 2024)
Frequency of journalists encountering false or made-up information when working on a story in the United States as of March 2022 [Graph], Pew Research Center, June 14, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1319457/journalists-finding-false-information-us/
