Japan is in second place for the first time, while the UK remains in third, and France moves to fourth place - major gains are in the index’s People and Governance sub-categories. Winter Olympics and FIFA World Cup hosts South Korea and Russia improved their images, South Korea most remarkably. The U.S. remains in sixth place.
Two years on from Brexit and the election of Donald Trump, a major new Ipsos survey across 25 countries, revisits the topic of populism and ‘system is broken’ sentiment.
A major new Ipsos study of over 19,000 people in 27 countries, and part of our long-running series on misperceptions of key social realities – The Perils of Perception – highlights how we think fake news, filter bubbles and post-truth are things that affect other people, much more than ourselves. But the majority also say they regularly see fake news, and nearly half say they’ve believed a fake story before finding out it’s fake.
Worldwide, more than two in ten respondents, who are aware of the FIFA World Cup 2018, believe that Germany will take home the Cup. Brazil, Spain and Argentina are also among the favourites. Overall, people have predominantly positive opinions about the games being held in Russia.
