Fox News Poll: Most Voters ’Very Worried’ Fake News is Hurting the Nation

Most are confident they can tell the difference.

1.24.2017

Fox News has released a new poll that indicates voters are “very worried” about how fake news is hurting the United States. And even though a lot of fake news circulated during the election, most are confident they can spot it from a mile away.

Here are the results:

A large majority of voters, 84 percent, are at least somewhat concerned fake news is “hurting the country.” That includes 61 percent who are “very” worried and another 23 percent who are “somewhat” concerned.

Only 15 percent aren’t worried about the phenomenon, where false stories are passed off as real, factual reporting.

Seventy-nine percent of those polled said they are confident they can spot fake news, with 42% saying they are “very” confident.

Liberals were more confident than conservatives when asked if they were very confident to tell the difference between real and fake news. Men were more likely than women to say the same.

Eight out of ten agreed that fake news is hurting the country and that was across the race/age/gender/party spectrum.

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