{"id":297975,"date":"2026-05-05T21:06:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T15:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/?p=297975"},"modified":"2026-05-05T21:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T15:25:08","slug":"risk-of-misinformation-on-the-rise-in-nepal-facebook-and-social-media-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/risk-of-misinformation-on-the-rise-in-nepal-facebook-and-social-media-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Risk of misinformation on the rise in Nepal: Facebook and social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. <b data-path-to-node=\"2\" data-index-in-node=\"0\">A study has confirmed that misinformation has emerged as a serious social and political problem in Nepal.TAG_CLOSE_b_10 According to the Citizens Survey on Misinformation, 2025 released by Complementary Asia, Nepalese citizens have identified social media, especially Facebook, as the main medium for spreading misinformation. <\/p>\n<div id=\"model-response-message-contentr_0f4caab35f918e4a\" class=\"markdown markdown-main-panel enable-updated-hr-color\" dir=\"ltr\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<p>73 TAG_OPEN_p_16.6 percent of the people surveyed said that misinformation has already become a big problem for Nepali society and politics. At the same time, 96.5 percent expressed concern that it could become even worse in the future. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>According to the study, 94 percent of respondents find false information on social media.TAG_OPEN_p_15 Facebook (91 per cent), YouTube (44 per cent) and TikTok (37 per cent) are in the lead. In addition to social media, personal communication (67 per cent), online news portals (55 per cent) and print media (38 per cent) also disseminate misinformation. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p data-path-to-node=\"5,0,0\">The most disinformation is spread on political issues (69.5%). Since then, there has been a lot of confusion about celebrities (54.5%) and political parties. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Social media users (68.3%) and &#8220;influencers&#8221; (37.1%) are most responsible for spreading misinformation, according to citizens.TAG_OPEN_p_13 Similarly, political parties and their sister organizations, politicians and, to a lesser extent, journalists, have also played a role in this, according to the survey. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p data-path-to-node=\"7\">Citizens have said that the role of various stakeholders is important to combat misinformation. Forty-nine per cent said the media should be the main responsibility, while 47 per cent said the government and 44 per cent said social media platforms should be responsible. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>{{TAG_OPEN_p_11} The report has emphasized the need to include this topic in the school curriculum to reduce misinformation, increase digital literacy and conduct awareness programs at the community level. <span class=\"citation-7 citation-end-7\"> Also, it has been concluded that the habit of using fact-checking sources to report to the platform if misinformation is found will help reduce its spread. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. A study has confirmed that misinformation has emerged as a serious social and political problem in Nepal.TAG_CLOSE_b_10 According to the Citizens Survey on Misinformation, 2025 released by Complementary Asia, Nepalese citizens have identified social media, especially Facebook, as the main medium for spreading misinformation. 73 TAG_OPEN_p_16.6 percent of the people surveyed said that misinformation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":297973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45167,45159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology-en","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297976,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297975\/revisions\/297976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media\/297973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}