INSCOP poll - Willingness to believe in conspiracies. Exposure to fake news | More than 70% of Romanians believe that they are exposed to fake news / More than 48% believe that there are many very important things happening in the world that ordinary people are never informed about.

INSCOP Research poll commissioned by News.ro - Willingness to believe in conspiracies. Exposure to fake news.

Exposure to fake news

Asked how often they generally come across news or information that they believe is distorting or even false, 19% of respondents say it happens rarely or never, 17.9% several times a month, 17.7% at least once a week, 26.1% every day or almost every day, and 11% several times a day. 7.7% of those surveyed say they cannot estimate and 0.6% do not answer.
Willingness to believe in conspiracies

Agreed: "There are a lot of very important things going on in the world that ordinary people are never informed about"

On a scale from 1 to 7, where 1 is "Strongly disagree" and 7 is "Strongly agree", 14.2% of respondents indicate 1 ("Strongly disagree") to express their opinion on the statement "There are many very important things happening in the world that ordinary people are never informed about". 2.4% choose 2, 5.8% - 3, 7.9% - 4, 12.8% - 5, and 8.4% - 6. 48.6% of those interviewed indicate 7 "Strongly agree".

Data were collected by CATI method (telephone interviews), the simple, stratified sample volume was 1100 persons, representative of the significant socio-demographic categories (sex, age, occupation) for the non-institutionalized population of Romania, aged 18 years and over.