Key Points
A majority of urban Indians, however, consider social media to be the least reliable source for forming political opinions, favouring government sources as the most trustworthy, according to the latest YouGov-Mint-CPR Millennial Survey findings..
Only 35% of respondents said they had great" or moderate" trust in political information sent by friends or family on WhatsApp or other social media, while over 60% placed their trust in government sources and newspapers. ..
Despite the abundance of information available online and in traditional media, urban Indians repose a high level of trust (59% overall; 65% of BJP supporters; 60% of Congress supporters) in respected or elderly figures in their family or community to form political opinions..
All this trust Indians repose in informal news sources is despite the fact that most had encountered some form of misleading political information in the year prior to the survey..
In line with its high popularity, the BJP had only 26% of the respondents accuse it of spreading propaganda on social media, while 39% said the party uses online platforms to spread awareness..
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