An Ongoing Infodemic: How People in Eight Countries Access News and Information about Coronavirus a Year into the Pandemic
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism 2021
38 Pages Posted: 28 Jun 2021
Date Written: May 27, 2021
Abstract
In this report, we use survey data collected in April 2021 to document and understand how people in eight countries (Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Spain, the UK, and the US) accessed news and information about COVID-19 more than a year into the global pandemic. We examine how they rate the trustworthiness of the different sources and platforms they rely on, how much misinformation they say they encounter, and how they see vaccines. For six of the countries (where we have comparable data from April 2020), we track changes over the last year.
Keywords: trust, misinformation, news, coronavirus, social media, COVID-19
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