A 2023 survey found that close to 60 percent of Republicans said they saw information they believed to be false or misleading every day, compared to just 47 percent of registered Democrat voters. Democrats were overall less likely to say they saw false information regularly.
Frequency of seeing false or misleading information online among adults in the United States as of April 2023, by party ID
Characteristic
Democrat
Independent
Republican
Daily
47%
55%
58%
Weekly
22%
16%
18%
Monthly
9%
7%
7%
Less often than monthly
11%
8%
7%
Never
2%
2%
2%
Not sure
9%
12%
10%
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0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%
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