Survey: One in four Germans distrusts the media
In Germany, one in four believes that politics and the media are "in cahoots." This is the result of a representative survey by the Institute of the German Economy (IW), which the Rheinische Post reported on Friday.
According to the survey, a total of a quarter of respondents tend to agree or fully agree with the above-mentioned conspiracy narrative. According to the survey, 23 percent of respondents think that there are secret organizations with great influence on political decisions. In a Germany-wide survey conducted at the end of March, significantly fewer people (eight percent) would have believed this narrative.
Around 70 percent of respondents under the age of 30 said they use the YouTube video platform to find out about politics. This means that the platform is more important than local television, radio or national newspapers.
Around 1,100 people were surveyed in September for the IW and Ruhr University Bochum survey. Conspiracy narratives were used to map the general susceptibility to conspiracy beliefs in the population.
