{"id":17854,"date":"2020-03-29T18:25:47","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T18:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rbsitsoftwaresolution.com\/blog\/people-who-mostly-get-news-from-social-networks-have-some-covid-19-misconceptions.html"},"modified":"2020-03-29T18:25:47","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T18:25:47","slug":"people-who-mostly-get-news-from-social-networks-have-some-covid-19-misconceptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/people-who-mostly-get-news-from-social-networks-have-some-covid-19-misconceptions.html","title":{"rendered":"People who mostly get news from social networks have some COVID-19 misconceptions"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new survey<\/a> conducted by the Pew Research Center shows a COVID-19 information divide between people who mostly get their news from social networks and those who rely on more traditional news sources.<\/p>\n

Pew surveyed 8,914 adults in the U.S. during the week of March 10, dividing survey respondents by the main means they use to consume political and election news. In the group of users that reports getting most of their news from social media, only 37% of respondents said that they expected the COVID-19 vaccine to be available in a year or more \u2014 an answer aligned with the current scientific consensus. In every other sample with the exception of the local TV group, at least 50% of those surveyed answered the question correctly. A third of social media news consumers also reported that they weren\u2019t sure about the vaccine availability.<\/p>\n

Among people who get most of their news from social media, 57% reported that they had seen at least some COVID-19 information that \u201cseemed completely made up.\u201d For people who consume most of their news via print media, that number was 37%.<\/p>\n

Most alarmingly, people who primarily get their news via social media perceived the threat of COVID-19 to be exaggerated. Of the social media news consumers surveyed, 45% answered that the media \u201cgreatly exaggerated the risks\u201d posed by the novel coronavirus. Radio news consumers were close behind, with 44% believing the media greatly exaggerated the threat of the virus, while only 26% of print consumers \u2014 those more likely to be paying for their news \u2014 believed the same.<\/p>\n

The full results were part of Pew\u2019s Election News Pathways project<\/a>, which explores how people in the U.S. consume election news.
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