Politics in the Media

SUMMARY

The section examines participants’ levels of trust in news sources, their methods of verifying information, their following of political actors on social media, and their attitudes toward freedom of expression:

• Which sources do you follow for national and world news?
  
• Which news source do you trust the most?
  
• When you first hear a piece of news, which source do you turn to for more information or verification?
  
• Do you use any methods to verify the accuracy of news?
  
• In your opinion, which TV channel produces the most fake news?
  
• Do you follow political parties on social media?
  
• Political parties followed on social media
  
• Political parties followed on social media by political preference
  
• Do you follow politicians on social media?
  
• Politicians followed on social media
  
• Average age of social media users who follow politicians
  
• Who did you discuss a political issue with in the past week?
  
• To what extent do you think your political views resemble those of that person?
  
• In your opinion, which TV channel produces the most fake news?
  
• Support for freedom of expression based on perceptions of fake news