Chart of the week: How confusing is fake news and who is responsible?

About two-in-three adults (64 per cent) say fabricated stories cause a great deal of confusion about the basic facts of current issues and events. And it seems the responsibility to counter such fake news lies more-or-less evenly distributed between the general public, the government and the social media platforms who are used to spread the fake stories, according to those surveyed.

Read the study by Pew.

Chart of the week fake news ()

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Source: Statista

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