{"id":85016,"date":"2026-06-26T10:37:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T14:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=85016"},"modified":"2026-06-26T12:36:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T16:36:41","slug":"young-male-gamers-twice-as-likely-to-believe-conspiracy-theories-uk-study-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=85016","title":{"rendered":"Young Male Gamers Twice as Likely to Believe Conspiracy Theories, UK Study Suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>A new study has found that young male gamers in the UK are twice as likely to believe conspiracy theories compared to the country&#8217;s general population. <\/p>\n<p>The statistic comes from a new report by research firm More in Common and The AKO Storytelling Institute at the University of Arts London (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.videogamesindustrymemo.com\/p\/young-male-gamers-are-twice-as-likely\">Video Games Industry Memo<\/a>), which polled thousands of young Brits on their thoughts, and grouped them based on their average video game usage.<\/p>\n<p>One aim of the study was to identify if video games could be a useful tool to reach those who may have switched off from mainstream media, and instead believed misinformation or disinformation spread by other sources. <\/p>\n<p>Intriguingly, the gaming-heavy group that most stated they agreed with the idea that &#8220;secret groups are controlling global events&#8221; also stated they were four times more confident that they would be able to spot misinformation. <\/p>\n<p>2,000 British men aged 18 to 24 were polled for the study, a group dubbed &#8220;Sceptical Scrollers&#8221;, who account for 10% of the country&#8217;s population, though are among those with the lowest income, most likely to be in debt and live in social housing close to where they grew up.<\/p>\n<p>The group is among the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study has found that young male gamers in the UK are twice as likely to believe conspiracy theories compared to the country&#8217;s general population. The statistic comes from a new report by research firm More in Common and The AKO Storytelling Institute at the University of Arts London (via Video Games Industry Memo),&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":85018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85016"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85016"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85020,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85016\/revisions\/85020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/85018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}