{"id":448333,"date":"2020-05-27T16:43:31","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T16:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/?p=448333"},"modified":"2020-05-27T16:55:47","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T16:55:47","slug":"survey-popular-covid-19-fakes-in-moldova-and-peoples-disinformation-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/survey-popular-covid-19-fakes-in-moldova-and-peoples-disinformation-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey\/\/ Popular COVID-19 fake news in Moldova and people&#8217;s (dis)information sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>More and more Moldovans have to deal with fake news every day. Unfortunately, a part of population believes them. According to a <a href=\"\/Drive\/articole\/Sondaj-integral-Mai-2020.pdf\">survey<\/a> conducted by the <strong>WatchDog.MD<\/strong> community, in cooperation with<strong> CBS Research<\/strong>, the degree of acceptance of various false statements indicates an extremely high level of trust in such manipulations among Moldovan citizens.<\/p>\n<p>For example, when asked about quite a few popular fake statements that circulate the whole world regarding the novel coronavirus, the survey participants answered the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #993300\">50.4%<\/span><\/strong> of respondents believe that the virus is no more dangerous than a flu and that it was intentionally made to destroy the economy;<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #993300\">37.8%<\/span><\/strong> of respondents admitted that the virus was created by Bill Gates, in order to introduce nano-chips in the bodies and control them;<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #993300\">37,2%<\/span><\/strong> of questioned people think that the COVID-19 virus was created in a Chinese laboratory;<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #993300\"><strong>35,9%<\/strong><\/span> of them said the pandemic is an excuse to impose a global Government that will rule the whole world;<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #993300\"><strong>33,4%<\/strong><\/span> of participants consider garlic a remedy for coronavirus;<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #993300\"><strong>32.7%<\/strong><\/span> of persons who answered the survey dangerously consider that the virus is a myth and everything is just a lie;<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #993300\">32,3%<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0of them are sure that only old people get infected and die;<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #993300\">32,2%<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0of survey participants believe that democratic regimes have bigger troubles with managing the crisis than the dictatorial ones;<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #993300\">29.7%<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0of persons said the EU will collapse due to the novel virus;<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #993300\">28.8%<\/span><\/strong> of respondents fear the COVID-19 tests are already infected when getting tested.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And these are, by far, not all false statements some Moldovans declared as being true during the survey. Some respondents think that the virus is spread in the Republic of Moldova through the 5G technology (11.7%), even though there is no such technology used in the country yet. Others claimed that the European Union didn&#8217;t offer any support to Moldova during the pandemic crisis (21.3%), despite the existing facts they can easily check.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300\">Out of 1003 respondents, only one denied absolutely all false or manipulating statements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>At the same time, <span style=\"color: #993300\">45%<\/span> of the Moldovan citizens who answered the opinion poll don&#8217;t trust at all or trust very little the <strong>World Health Organisation<\/strong> as a source of information. 5.2% of them don&#8217;t even know anything about the organisation.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to the local information sources, the survey respondents claimed that they merely find out what&#8217;s new by watching TV (77.2%), by accessing web pages (42.2%), various social media platforms\u00a0(35.7%), such as Facebook, Odnoklasniki, Instagram and Vkontakte, or talk to family members (12.7%), friends and neighbours (15.1%).<\/p>\n<p>Another important aspect is that only <span style=\"color: #993300\">1.4%<\/span> of respondents inform themselves in any other language than Romanian, Russian or both. Even so, <span style=\"color: #993300\">16.3% of survey participants said it is rather hard or very hard for them to understand what news are accurate and whether the information presented is true or not.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A crucial source of disinformation for people of Moldova, which is not mentioned in the options of the survey though, is the church. Lately, the Moldovan Orthodox Church spread dangerous fakes about COVID-19 vaccination, nano-chipping and 5G.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">See also:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000080\" href=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/the-moldovan-orthodox-church-spread-dangerous-fakes-about-covid-19-vaccination-nano-chipping-and-5g\/\">The Moldovan Orthodox Church spread dangerous fakes about COVID-19 vaccination, nano-chipping and 5G<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>The survey was conducted at the national level between May 5-11, being part of the project <em>&#8220;Facilitating crisis communication and accountability as a civic response to COVID-19 pandemic in Moldova&#8221;<\/em>. It was implemented with the support of the <strong>Black Sea Trust for Regional Cooperation of the German Marshall Fund<\/strong> and involved\u00a01003 persons aged 18 years and over.<\/p>\n<p>The study measured political trends, geo-political preferences, media consumption, as well as\u00a0the impact of manipulative rhetoric, false news and conspiracy theories in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Photo:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@goumbik?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Lukas Blazek|<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/s\/photos\/survey?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>More and more Moldovans have to deal with fake news every day. Unfortunately, a part of population believes them. According to a survey conducted by the WatchDog.MD community, in cooperation with CBS Research, the degree of acceptance of various false statements indicates an extremely high level of trust in such manipulations among Moldovan citizens. For [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":448334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4],"tags":[734,642,189,35,719,27,501,103,733],"class_list":["post-448333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","category-society","tag-cbs-research","tag-covid-19","tag-fake-news","tag-important","tag-manipulation","tag-moldova","tag-study","tag-survey","tag-watchdog"],"content_social_share":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 3<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p>More and more Moldovans have to deal with fake news every day. Unfortunately, a part of population believes them. According to a <a href=\"\/Drive\/articole\/Sondaj-integral-Mai-2020.pdf\">survey<\/a> conducted by the <strong>WatchDog.MD<\/strong> community, in cooperation with<strong> CBS Research<\/strong>, the degree of acceptance of various false statements indicates an extremely high level of trust in such manipulations among Moldovan citizens.<\/p>\n<p>For example, when asked about quite a few popular fake statements that circulate the whole world regarding the novel coronavirus, the survey participants answered the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #993300\">50.4%<\/span><\/strong> of respondents believe that the virus is no more dangerous than a flu and that it was intentionally made to destroy the economy;<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #993300\">37.8%<\/span><\/strong> of respondents admitted that the virus was created by Bill Gates, in order to introduce nano-chips in the bodies and control them;<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #993300\">37,2%<\/span><\/strong> of questioned people think that the COVID-19 virus was created in a Chinese laboratory;<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #993300\"><strong>35,9%<\/strong><\/span> of them said the pandemic is an excuse to impose a global Government that will rule the whole world;<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #993300\"><strong>33,4%<\/strong><\/span> of participants consider garlic a remedy for coronavirus;<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #993300\"><strong>32.7%<\/strong><\/span> of persons who answered the survey dangerously consider that the virus is a myth and everything is just a lie;<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #993300\">32,3%<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0of them are sure that only old people get infected and die;<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #993300\">32,2%<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0of survey participants believe that democratic regimes have bigger troubles with managing the crisis than the dictatorial ones;<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #993300\">29.7%<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0of persons said the EU will collapse due to the novel virus;<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #993300\">28.8%<\/span><\/strong> of respondents fear the COVID-19 tests are already infected when getting tested.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And these are, by far, not all false statements some Moldovans declared as being true during the survey. Some respondents think that the virus is spread in the Republic of Moldova through the 5G technology (11.7%), even though there is no such technology used in the country yet. Others claimed that the European Union didn&#8217;t offer any support to Moldova during the pandemic crisis (21.3%), despite the existing facts they can easily check.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300\">Out of 1003 respondents, only one denied absolutely all false or manipulating statements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>At the same time, <span style=\"color: #993300\">45%<\/span> of the Moldovan citizens who answered the opinion poll don&#8217;t trust at all or trust very little the <strong>World Health Organisation<\/strong> as a source of information. 5.2% of them don&#8217;t even know anything about the organisation.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to the local information sources, the survey respondents claimed that they merely find out what&#8217;s new by watching TV (77.2%), by accessing web pages (42.2%), various social media platforms\u00a0(35.7%), such as Facebook, Odnoklasniki, Instagram and Vkontakte, or talk to family members (12.7%), friends and neighbours (15.1%).<\/p>\n<p>Another important aspect is that only <span style=\"color: #993300\">1.4%<\/span> of respondents inform themselves in any other language than Romanian, Russian or both. Even so, <span style=\"color: #993300\">16.3% of survey participants said it is rather hard or very hard for them to understand what news are accurate and whether the information presented is true or not.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A crucial source of disinformation for people of Moldova, which is not mentioned in the options of the survey though, is the church. Lately, the Moldovan Orthodox Church spread dangerous fakes about COVID-19 vaccination, nano-chipping and 5G.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">See also:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000080\" href=\"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/the-moldovan-orthodox-church-spread-dangerous-fakes-about-covid-19-vaccination-nano-chipping-and-5g\/\">The Moldovan Orthodox Church spread dangerous fakes about COVID-19 vaccination, nano-chipping and 5G<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>The survey was conducted at the national level between May 5-11, being part of the project <em>&#8220;Facilitating crisis communication and accountability as a civic response to COVID-19 pandemic in Moldova&#8221;<\/em>. 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