Reliability of news on social media

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Source

General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org

Details

Question In general, how reliable would you rate the news on political matters found in the following sources?… Online social media (for example WhatsApp, Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, Truth Social).

Values

1 very unreliable
2 somewhat unreliable
3 somewhat reliable
4 very reliable
NA(d) can't choose / NA(i) iap / NA(j) I don't have a job / NA(m) dk, na, iap / NA(n) no answer / NA(p) not imputable / NA(r) refused / NA(s) skipped on web / NA(u) uncodeable / NA(x) not available in this release / NA(y) not available in this year / NA(z) see codebook

Question Years and Ballots

year	ballots	availability
2024	A/B	partial

Link at the GSS

For further details see the GSS Data Explorer page for smnews.