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.
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.
Guess which third
Is the Venn diagram of these people and the qons a single circle?
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.
one third of Americans are stupid.
Hmmmm, the country that has killed of education is full of stupid people. Big surprise!
I’m surprised it’s only 1/3rd. Americans are extremely stupid.
