For the majority of young people, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube are the most interesting platforms for keeping up with latest events, and news about education, science and technology are the most attractive to them. Although they believe that only some of the information on social media is true and almost a quarter of them spend a worryingly large amount of time on social media, actively searching for and reacting to information is not common for young people. They consider themselves able to recognize disinformation in the media, but more than half may have shared disinformation without knowing it. According to young people, politics and political parties are the biggest source of disinformation. At the same time, their political views on social developments in the country are mute.

This is shown by the survey conducted by the Institute of Communication Studies (ICS) in the run-up to the presidential and parliamentary elections, the purpose of which is to determine the habits of media and news consumption among young people, their ability to recognize disinformation in the media and what their civic and political engagement is.