Four out of five French people believe at least one of the widespread conspiracy theories, for example The Americans never landed on the moon.

Conspiracy theory

This was shown by the Ifop study. One in five Frenchmen also doubts the official version of the attack in the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. The study also shows that only a quarter of French people trust the media. According to the study, every second Frenchman thinks that the Ministry of Health, along with the pharmaceutical industry, is hiding the public's harmfulness. Every third is of the opinion that AIDS was born in the laboratory. And one in ten thinks the Earth is flat.

The study also revealed considerable public distrust of the media, wrote Libération. Only 25 percent of French believe that "the media faithfully reproduces the information and can admit and correct the mistake". One in ten thinks "the role of journalists basically lies in spreading false propaganda to keep the existing" system ".

Young people tend to be subject to conspiracy theories

The data collected by the study evaluators in relation to the age of the respondents, their profession, education, place of residence, political orientation and self-evaluation. For example, it has been shown that only two of these factors play a role: age and political orientation. Rather, the younger people and those who have moved to extreme positions during the last presidential election are subject to conspiracy theories.

The Ifop Institute prepared the study for the Jean-Jauré Foundation and the Conspiracy Watch Web Server. From 19. to 20. On December 12, the 1252 questionnaire was completed on the Internet by 18 senior years. According to Libération, this is the most important survey on the spread of conspiracy theories in the population ever implemented in France.

At 7.1.2018, France commemorated the third anniversary of the terrorist attack on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, where the brothers Chérif and Said Kouachi attacked. The Islamist leadership has not survived 12 people, among them the most well-known journalists.