According to a 2022 survey, 84 percent of global respondents said that social media made it much easier to manipulate people. Overall, 91 percent of respondents in the Netherlands agreed with this statement, as did 90 percent of those in Australia. A little over half of respondents in Malaysia agreed that social media made it easier to manipulate people.
Share of adults who agree that social media is making it easier to manipulate people worldwide in 2022
From March 21 to 27, 2022, 3,581 U.S. adults were surveyed.
The report draws on nationally representative surveys of 20,944 adults from February 14 to June 3, 2022, for non-U.S. data.
Those who did not answer are not shown.
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Pew Research Center. (December 6, 2022). Share of adults who agree that social media is making it easier to manipulate people worldwide in 2022 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved November 22, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1462913/social-media-easier-to-manipulate-people/
Pew Research Center. "Share of adults who agree that social media is making it easier to manipulate people worldwide in 2022." Chart. December 6, 2022. Statista. Accessed November 22, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1462913/social-media-easier-to-manipulate-people/
Pew Research Center. (2022). Share of adults who agree that social media is making it easier to manipulate people worldwide in 2022. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: November 22, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1462913/social-media-easier-to-manipulate-people/
Pew Research Center. "Share of Adults Who Agree That Social Media Is Making It Easier to Manipulate People Worldwide in 2022." Statista, Statista Inc., 6 Dec 2022, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1462913/social-media-easier-to-manipulate-people/
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Share of adults who agree that social media is making it easier to manipulate people worldwide in 2022 [Graph], Pew Research Center, December 6, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1462913/social-media-easier-to-manipulate-people/
