Leger, a polling and marketing research firm, with offices across North America conducted this online survey Feb 25, 2026 to March 13, 2026, with a representative sample of 2,007 Americans over the age of 18 to explore the prevalence of disinformation in the U.S., the parties most responsible for sharing disinformation, the level of trust the American public has in different information sources, and whose job it is to combat disinformation.
This is the sixth year Leger has partnered with IPR and their annual disinformation study that examines and tracks how disinformation — defined as deliberately misleading or biased information — is spread in the U.S. with comparisons to 2025 findings. The Institute for Public Relations created this survey and first published results in 2019. This study has also been replicated in Canada with Leger in 2022.