Canadians consider the online disinformation epidemic and climate change as the most serious threats of the modern age, edging out pandemic-era concerns about the global economy and infectious disease, a new survey suggests.
“With the COVID-19 pandemic still raging, a hot war between Russia and Ukraine ongoing, inflation rates rising globally and heat records being smashed across parts of the world, countries are facing a wide variety of challenges in 2022,” Pew said in a release. Concern about climate change – dominant in Europe, with scores as high as 82 per cent – was offset by the western world, where political affiliations tend to determine the extent of concern expressed about environmental issues.
“Despite these political divisions, concerns about climate change have been rising in recent years, as people react to the climate extremes plaguing their countries,” the survey said. Canada was an outlier when it came to the level of concern about false information online. While a majority of respondents in all 19 countries called it a major threat, only in two other countries – Germany and Malaysia – did those surveyed also make it their top choice.
Indeed, that’s the highest level of concern expressed among Canadian respondents since Pew began asking the question in 2016 – a likely consequence of this year’s show of force by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Crafting the government narrative so Trudeau can pass his censorship bill.
Wow - not inflation and healthcare? The corruption of pewresearch is so obvious.
Hahaha. They list those concerns as separate. Misinformation and climate change… ironic
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