WhatsApp is the favourite app for users of all ages. 95% of people surveyed use this instant messaging app, especially as a communication channel, to talk to their friends and, exceptionally, at work. After this app come YouTube (73%), Instagram (68%) and Facebook (58%) .
Users say that social media serves as a means of communication oman number data (WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Skype), entertainment (YouTube and Instagram) and keeping in touch with friends (WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram).
Real news or fake news?
The study, part of the Atresmedia Commitment, reveals that the majority of respondents cannot distinguish between fake news and real news . To find out, they carried out three tests: two false statements (free plane tickets for those who want to leave the US and the cryogenization of a woman) and one true one (warning from 15,000 scientists about the upcoming mass extinction). The fake news was considered true and the real news was considered fabricated.
79% of the people surveyed said that the news about free plane tickets was true , while 59% agreed that the news about the scientists was false and 54% considered the news about freezing a woman to revive her in the future to be true.
In the section of the study dedicated to cybersecurity , we found that 60% of Internet users answered questions on this topic correctly. The questions that obtained the highest percentage of correct answers were what is an IP address (74%) and what is a cookie (67%). Mo