Survey: Majority of Germans Unsettled by Fake News
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Deceptively real: Digital lobby Bitkom warns against the consequences of disinformation for democracy. According to a recent study, 91% of people in Germany deliberately encounter false messages on the Internet. Every second person has already forwarded content despite doubts. At the same time, 63% of respondents find it difficult to assess whether a message is reliable. bitkom.org, sueddeutsche.de(Photo: IMAGO / Westlight)
Many people in Germany are no longer able to correctly recognize whether information on the Internet is genuine or not. In a survey by the IT industry association Bitkom, almost two thirds (63 percent) of respondents said that it was generally difficult to assess whether news is reliable. 41 percent also frequently encounter content that they are unsure of whether it is correct. And 91 percent have already come across “fake news,” i.e. intention…
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