Making Money or Telling the Truth

The chart below shows the percentage in each community type who said they believed "the mainstream media are more interested in making money than telling the truth." The ACP asked the question in 2023 and 2025.

Chart: American Communities ProjectSource: American Communities Project/Ipsos 2025 Fragmentation Study, using a sample of 4,889 American adults aged 18 or older, with interviews taking place online. Survey fielded on the KnowledgePanel from August 18 – September 1, 2025. American Communities Project/Ipsos 2023 Fragmentation Study, June 7-23, 2023, using Ipsos’ probability-based KnowledgePanel® and from June 12-23, 2023. The poll is based on a sample of 5,093 Americans aged 18 or older, with 4,493 interviews taking place online. Question wasn’t asked to participants in Aging Farmlands and Native American Lands due to the time constraints of RDD Telephone. Get the dataCreated with Datawrapper