| Cross-country (%) | Misinformation / made up news | Too much negativity | Hate / harassment / extremism | People believing everything/not knowing what to believe | Partisanship / polarization / division | Echo chambers / people getting one point of view | Privacy or data collection concerns / bad actors | Other | DK/RA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 40 | 14 | 12 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 10 |
| Armenia | 61 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
Question text: What is the main reason you think that online social media has a mostly negative effect on the way things are going in /Country/ today?
Note: The question was asked to the respondents who think that social media has mostly negative effect
Answer options 'Sensationalism/exaggeration/clickbait', 'Anti-government views', ' and 'Vanity/drama/impacts on mental health' were grouped to 'Other'.
Caucasus Barometer is the regular household survey about social economic issues and political attitudes conducted by CRRC.