Sixty-four percent of people in 27 countries said their fellow citizens believed politicians were less trustworthy than they were 30 years ago, a large-scale study about political mood around the world showed on Thursday.
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 06th September, 2018) Sixty-four percent of people in 27 countries said their fellow citizens believed politicians were less trustworthy than they were 30 years ago, a large-scale study about political mood around the world showed on Thursday.
"It's no surprise that 64% think people in their country trust politicians to tell the truth less than they did 30 years ago. This includes a majority in every country in the study and reaches highs of 80% in Sweden and 77% in South Africa," the summary of the study, conducted by the Ipsos MORI market research agency, read.
The agency noted that 57 percent of respondents thought politicians and media spread more disinformation than they did three decades ago. However, 11 percent believed there were currently less lying in politics and media.
Today, 39 percent of people think that an average person knows more about politics compared with 30 years ago, according to the survey.
Fifty-two percent of respondents blamed people's misconceptions about key realities on politicians, while 49 percent blamed the media and 41 percent suggested that social media were responsible. However, 43 percent of respondents said that the misunderstanding of key realities should be blamed on a person's tendency to focus on negative information.
Sixty percent of those surveyed said they had seen stories where a news outlet had deliberately spread disinformation. Moreover, 48 percent said they had believed a news story in the past that was later found to be fake.
The survey was conducted between June 22 and July 6 among 19,243 adults in 27 countries.
