Differences in trust in mass media vs social media


30.09.2018

Interestingly, the generally low trust in the media in disaster situations cannot simply be transferred to trust in social media messages. Here, the data reveal a considerable difference between the respective information source: whereas 64% of the participants indicated that they trust (or trust a lot) messages from local authorities (and only 5% distrust or distrust a lot), only 22% answered that they trust (or trust a lot) messages from other private social media users, without any significant difference in the responses between gender and age groups.


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