Their methodology involves asking people a bunch of questions and then if they don’t get 100% correct they’re counted as believing misinformation. Putting aside the unreliability of online polls, that’s a pretty misleading way of framing it, if you ask me.
If you asked people 10 questions about just about anything, you’d probably find a substantial number of people who don’t get every one right. In fact, they did do this under the heading, “Disinformation Nation: Americans Widely Believe False Claims on a Range of Topics.” That’s probably why they found that, “Respondents identifying as Democrats were about as likely (82 percent) to believe at least one of the 10 false claims as those identifying as Republicans (81 percent).”
Many of the people responding to the poll may not have ever encountered the claims they were asked about. If you are first encountering a claim in that context, you pretty much just have to guess whether you think it’s true based on vibes. And you can easily set up misleading vibes, like, “Conservative initiative Project 2025 proposes cutting or eliminating Social Security” which is false because it’s not explicitly stated, but it does explicitly state a whole bunch of other horrible shit, so like, if you get got by that one it doesn’t really show that you believe in an inaccurate picture of the world, just that you got tripped up by details. But that claim dings you for “believing misinformation” just as much as " COVID-19 vaccines killed 15 million people worldwide."
So like it doesn’t really tell us very much about how far reaching disinformation really is, the results are more of a reflection of their methodology.
I’m surprised it’s only 1/3rd. Americans are extremely stupid.
Don’t 1/3 of Americans believe the world is 6000 years old? Earth is flat? and other nonsense? Why wouldn’t they believe misinformation/propaganda, Russian or otherwise?
It’s the same damn 30% too.
Self-identified dems/independant still believed some disinformation. You are not immune to propaganda.
Is the Venn diagram of these people and the qons a single circle?
Trump administration: Time to boost those numbers! Do your thing little Marco! “Twitter files 2.0 coming up! We’re getting rid of the disinformation task force because they CeNsOrEd CoNsErVaTiVeS!”
🤮 🤮 🤮 🤮
Yes, we know that, now how to go about getting these god damn troglodytes to start critical thinking without offending their delicate sensibilities.
So about the same that voted for Trump. Makes sense.
Fortunately thats the minority. Remember that.
We aren’t talking about a 10% minority, or 20%, this is a whopping 30%. That is absolutely unprecedented and essentially irrecoverable, especially in the context of an ideologue.
Guess which third
Hmmmm, the country that has killed of education is full of stupid people. Big surprise!
one third of Americans are stupid.
I feel it’s closer to half, so maybe one third are just really, really stupid.
Its just your standard bell curve. With the majority of us being in the average range.
And unfortunately they showed up to vote.
They never sit one out, because in their mind “calling a man a woman” and living next to someone that is only guilty of not filing immigration paperwork is apparently how we turn into a failing nation.
They have for over a decade, unfortunately.
You’re not counting the talk radio years?
That cancer spread super-fast. I watched a friend go down in mere months.
They believe something because they want to
What they believe or disbelieve is nothing more than a matter of convenience
Right you are, FistingEnthusiast
MAGA
That was my thought… approx 1/3 also voted for the chonk-in-charge. What a strange Coincidence. /s
1/3 believes in disinformation(conservatives magats), the other 1/3 are apathetic or is ignorant, and the actual 1/3 are aware of it. so basically 2/3 falls for the DIS/misinformation.
