India: frequency of seeing fake news online 2023

According to a digital news consumption survey conducted in India in March 2023, more than 60 percent of the respondents claimed that they sometimes encountered potentially fake news online. In contrast, three percent of the surveyed consumers stated that they never encountered potentially fake news online. In recent years, the number of fake news-related incidents in India has been on the rise.

Frequency of encountering potentially fake news online in India as of March 2023

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Release date

May 2023

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Region

India

Survey time period

March 2023

Number of respondents

more than 86,000 respondents

Age group

15-60 years

Special properties

with additional qualitative and quantitative analyses across eight Indian languages

Method of interview

Online survey

Supplementary notes

Figures do not add up to 100 due to the rounding.

Original question: "How frequently do you come across news that looks suspicious and is difficult to tag as real or fake?"

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