Letter

In response to Misinformation was rife during the 2025 election. New research shows many people were unable to identify it

Misinformation during the election

It is impossible to evaluate the analysis carried out by the researchers who reported on the survey they carried out in the absence of the identity of the statements that they said were false, and which the respondents were asked to comment on.

I do not know how we the readers of this article can form any view about the value and usefulness of their survey, and the significance of the seriousness of the statements said in some way to be false or misleading.

This omission renders useless the publication of the report by the researchers in the form presented to the reader of your publication.

I have lived in hope that your publication would provide something that the general media is incapable or fails to provide – facts enabling the reader to form a judgment. I am very disappointed that the published material has failed to give sufficient information to allow a judgment about whether the survey has provided any information of substance

— John Trew from Sydney