One Third of Americans Believe Russian Disinformation, NewsGuard-YouGov Survey Finds - NewsGuard's Reality Check
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In the ongoing battle between fiction and reality, fiction — much of it created by Russia’s robust disinformation machine — appears to be winning.
A national YouGov survey commissioned by NewsGuard found that one third of Americans believe at least one false claim now being spread by Russian media outlets.
The survey, conducted on a representative sample of 1,000 Americans, presented respondents with 10 false claims that have spread widely online, including three that originated from or were primarily spread by Russian media outlets. Respondents were asked to identify whether each claim was true, false, or whether they were unsure about its veracity.
The false claims were selected from NewsGuard’s Misinformation Fingerprints, a continuously updated data stream of provably false claims spreading online.
In addition, the survey found that one in three Americans believe false claims spread by the Kremlin to be true, and three quarters are unable to consistently identify Russian disinformation narratives as false.
The results also show that Americans are widely vulnerable to believing falsehoods spread online across a range of topics including health and medicine,...
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