Misinformation in the media: global coverage of GMOs 2019-2021

Figures & data

Table 1. Occurrence of GMO misinformation, January 2019 – January 2021.

	Factual	Misinformation	Total
Articles number	488	47	535
Percentage	91%	9%	100%
Readership volume	4.8 billion	256 million	5 billion
Readership percentage	95%	5%	100%

Figure 1. GMO misinformation totals by topic.

Figure 2. Sentiment of GMO articles by volume.

Figure 3. Sentiment of GMO articles by readership.

Figure 4. Topic spikes and readership for the highest visibility misinformation articles.

Figure 5. GMO misinformation by volume, broken down by region.