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A slim majority think more Americans visited untrustworthy sites around the 2024 election

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Comparing the 2024 election with 2020, a slim 56% of Americans think a larger share of the public visited untrustworthy websites the second time around, according to a Verasight survey conducted April 9-15, 2025.

A further 36% think the share held about the same, while just 8% think fewer people did.

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A slim majority think more Americans visited untrustworthy sites around the 2024 election.

In the weeks around the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election, a past study found that 26.2% of American adults visited at least one “untrustworthy” website (i.e., websites that repeatedly publish false content). Do you think the percentage of American adults that visited at least one such website in the weeks around the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election was more, less, or the same?

  • More 55.6%
  • Same 36.3%
  • Less 8.2%

2025 · base n 1,000 · +/- 3.5%

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Methodology

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Mode
Verasight panel recruited via random address-based sampling, random person-to-person text messaging, and dynamic online targeting
Field dates
2025-04-09 → 2025-04-15
Base (unweighted)
1,000
Margin of error
+/- 3.5%
Module
society

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Verasight MPSA Omnibus Survey #2025-026, fielded April 9-15, 2025, N=1,000 US adults age 18+, +/- 3.5%.

https://verasight-mpsa-2025.tiiny.co

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Mode
Verasight panel recruited via random address-based sampling, random person-to-person text messaging, and dynamic online targeting.
Population
US adults age 18+.
Sample design
Surveys are run as omnibus or single-topic waves. Omnibus waves are split into modules with their own respondent set, typically around one thousand respondents per module.
Field window
Each wave specifies its own field dates. Most omnibus waves field across roughly two weeks.
Weighting
Per-module weighting to CPS targets including age, race and ethnicity, sex, income, education, region, and metropolitan status.
Partisanship benchmark
Pew Research Center's NPORS benchmarking surveys, three-year running average.
Vote benchmark
2024 presidential vote population benchmarks.
Margin of error
Typically about plus or minus 3.4 to 3.6 percent per module at standard module sizes. Question-level MoE is recomputed when a base shrinks materially below the module baseline.
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