2022 Election Problems: Misinformation spread on social media (October 2022)
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| category | Total |
|---|---|
| Extremely serious | 51% |
| Somewhat serious | 27% |
| Not too serious | 8% |
| Not serious at all | 8% |
| Don't know | 6% |
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| Category | Democrat | Independent | Republican |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extremely serious | 59% | 35% | 49% |
| Somewhat serious | 29% | 21% | 26% |
| Not too serious | 6% | 10% | 9% |
| Not serious at all | 2% | 15% | 13% |
| Don't know | 4% | 18% | 3% |
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| Category | Lean Democrat | Not very strong Democrat | Strong Democrat |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extremely serious | 53% | 51% | 65% |
| Somewhat serious | 32% | 35% | 24% |
| Not too serious | 6% | 7% | 5% |
| Not serious at all | 0% | 3% | 2% |
| Don't know | 9% | 4% | 3% |
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| Category | Lean Republican | Not very strong Republican | Strong Republican |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extremely serious | 42% | 39% | 54% |
| Somewhat serious | 22% | 38% | 25% |
| Not too serious | 8% | 14% | 8% |
| Not serious at all | 25% | 5% | 10% |
| Don't know | 3% | 3% | 3% |
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| Category | Liberals | Moderates | Conservatives |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extremely serious | 62% | 45% | 48% |
| Somewhat serious | 28% | 26% | 28% |
| Not too serious | 4% | 9% | 10% |
| Not serious at all | 4% | 7% | 11% |
| Don't know | 2% | 13% | 4% |
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| Category | Lean liberal | Somewhat liberal | Extremely liberal |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extremely serious | 54% | 67% | 62% |
| Somewhat serious | 36% | 22% | 29% |
| Not too serious | 4% | 4% | 4% |
| Not serious at all | 3% | 6% | 3% |
| Don't know | 2% | 2% | 2% |
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| Category | Lean conservative | Somewhat conservative | Extremely conservative |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extremely serious | 43% | 47% | 53% |
| Somewhat serious | 33% | 31% | 20% |
| Not too serious | 14% | 8% | 8% |
| Not serious at all | 7% | 12% | 13% |
| Don't know | 3% | 2% | 6% |
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| Category | White | Black | Hispanic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extremely serious | 52% | 53% | 48% |
| Somewhat serious | 28% | 25% | 28% |
| Not too serious | 9% | 6% | 7% |
| Not serious at all | 8% | 6% | 9% |
| Don't know | 4% | 10% | 7% |
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| Category | Male | Female |
|---|---|---|
| Extremely serious | 47% | 55% |
| Somewhat serious | 30% | 25% |
| Not too serious | 6% | 9% |
| Not serious at all | 12% | 4% |
| Don't know | 4% | 7% |
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| Category | Urban | Suburban | Rural |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extremely serious | 51% | 52% | 50% |
| Somewhat serious | 28% | 27% | 27% |
| Not too serious | 7% | 8% | 10% |
| Not serious at all | 7% | 9% | 8% |
| Don't know | 8% | 4% | 6% |
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| Category | 18-29 | 30-44 | 45-64 | 65+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Extremely serious | 43% | 49% | 54% | 57% |
| Somewhat serious | 36% | 29% | 22% | 27% |
| Not too serious | 8% | 8% | 8% | 7% |
| Not serious at all | 3% | 9% | 12% | 4% |
| Don't know | 10% | 5% | 4% | 5% |
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| Category | No HS | High school graduate | Some college | 2-year | 4-year | Post-grad |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Extremely serious | 53% | 48% | 50% | 44% | 54% | 58% |
| Somewhat serious | 29% | 25% | 28% | 34% | 29% | 20% |
| Not too serious | 2% | 10% | 5% | 10% | 8% | 9% |
| Not serious at all | 14% | 8% | 7% | 11% | 5% | 10% |
| Don't know | 2% | 9% | 10% | 1% | 4% | 2% |
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| Category | Extremely important | Somewhat important | Not very important | Not at all important |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Extremely serious | 52% | 47% | 49% | 58% |
| Somewhat serious | 25% | 32% | 31% | 24% |
| Not too serious | 10% | 9% | 5% | 3% |
| Not serious at all | 8% | 6% | 7% | 11% |
| Don't know | 5% | 7% | 8% | 3% |
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| Category | The Bible is the actual word of God and is to be taken literally, word for word. | The Bible is the word of God but not everything in it should be taken literally, word for word. | The Bible is a book written by men and is not the word of God. | Don't know. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Extremely serious | 52% | 49% | 56% | 48% |
| Somewhat serious | 26% | 27% | 29% | 27% |
| Not too serious | 11% | 9% | 4% | 5% |
| Not serious at all | 6% | 9% | 9% | 6% |
| Don't know | 6% | 7% | 2% | 15% |
