Who (no longer) believes in coronavirus conspiracy myths?
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has shown that Covid conspiracy myths are also a widespread phenomenon in Germany.
This report examines a multitude of characteristics of followers of Covid conspiracy myths such as the impact of education, age, or political attitudes. The results of this report reveal that fewer people in Germany cling to Covid conspiracy myths in 2021 than in the previous year. While in 2020 around 15 percent of those surveyed believed in Covid conspiracy stories, this proportion fell to around 9 percent in 2021. Covid conspiracy myths are still prevalent among all population groups. However, the followers of such myths differ, among other things, in their values: for example, they are less willing to subordinate themselves to the common good. In addition, they are clearly more individualistic and show less solidarity in their political attitudes than the rest of the population.