Media illiteracy by the numbers
News deserts Only 36% of British people say they trust the news
Reuters Institute’s Digital News Report 2021
Mental Wellbeing 51% of the UK's children say they have been exposed to more misleading online content in the last year than before 2020 often leaving them feeling annoyed, upset, sad, angry, attacked or scared.
UK Safer Internet Centre, 2020
Critical thinking skills 24% of internet users in the UK don’t consider the potential trustworthiness of online information at all.
Sutton Trust, 2019