Thread by @risj_oxford

How do people get news and information about #COVID19 one year into the pandemic?

This is the question at the heart of a report by @rasmus_kleis @annisch @dragz, with data from 🇦🇷🇧🇷🇩🇪🇯🇵🇰🇷🇪🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸

📚 Read here
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/ongoing-infode…
🧶 Key findings in thread

First, the good news.

📰 A year into the pandemic, the news media have become even more central to how people stay informed about #COVID19. They are the most widely used source in every country except 🇧🇷. And yet their reach is a bit lower among the younger & the less educated

Trust in news orgs has declined less (8 points) than trust in government (13 points) in the last year

👩‍⚕️ In most countries covered, health authorities, doctors and other experts remain highly and broadly trusted, though this trust has declined somewhat too, especially in 🇦🇷🇺🇸

📱 There's a big trust gap between news orgs and social media (21 points), video sites (22) and messaging apps (28).

🔍 The trust gap between news orgs and search engines is much smaller (6 on average). Search engines are actually more trusted than news orgs in 🇦🇷🇧🇷

🤥 Concern over false or misleading #COVID19 info is focused on political actors first and foremost. Here's the % of people who think they've seen a lot or a great deal of false or misleading information from politicians recently

🇰🇷48%
🇦🇷43%
🇧🇷41%
🇪🇸39%
🇺🇸38%
🇩🇪31%
🇯🇵23%
🇬🇧20%

🇺🇸 The transition from Trump to Biden has changed perceptions about the US government as a source #COVID19 misinformation. Here's the transformation we've seen from last year:

% concerned has dropped by 40 points among the left and has grown by 44 points among the right

💉 We have good news regarding vaccines

Belief in misinformation about #COVID19 vaccines is very low across all countries covered. In most, more than 90% of those surveyed do not believe any of the 5 false claims we included in the survey, even if they may have come across them

📺 Our data shows that using news orgs. as a source for #COVID19 info is significantly associated with lower belief in vaccine misinformation in every country

💬 In contrast, relying on messaging apps is associated with higher misinformation belief in almost every country

In most countries around half of our respondents think the news media have done a good job of explaining how vaccines work and how people will be vaccinated.

These figures are typically higher than the equivalent figures for governments, with the exception of 🇬🇧

The report, authored by @rasmus_kleis @annisch & @dragz, includes many other figures for 🇦🇷🇧🇷🇩🇪🇯🇵🇰🇷🇪🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸. It's worth your time

📱Read it here
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/ongoing-infode…

📃 PDF here
reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/…