B
Evidence Grade B
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58%
58% -- distrust rate for social media (2026)
58% of surveyed news consumers stated they would not trust political and election news coverage on social media due to fake news scandals.
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Value
58%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
Entity
Sample Size
8,000
Evidence Quality
B
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Sourced from a well-regarded research firm or industry leader with transparent methodology and a reasonably large sample.
Single source - not yet corroborated
Score breakdown
Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Kantar
Primary
Tier B
http://www.allaboutnewspapers.com/print-still-more-trustful-than-digital/ ↗
Source Article
Print still more trustful than digital
Original Research
Kantar
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Methodology
Kantar survey of 8,000 news consumers in US, UK, France and Brazil
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Industrymarketing
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social media: 58% distrust rate. Source: Kantar (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/social-media-politics-news-distrust-58
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