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Iceland has mostly avoided misinformation. That may be changing.

Poynter · Louis Jacobson · last updated

REYKJAVIK, Iceland — For centuries, Iceland has tended to be off the world’s beaten path. It’s an island in the North Atlantic, home today to about 400,000 people. Its language, Icelandic, is spoken in large numbers nowhere else.

These factors — combined with affluence (a GDP per capita similar to the United States) and high education (a college-degree attainment rate that exceeds Canada’s and Germany’s) — have tended to protect Icelanders from the tide of misinformation that has flooded other countries, including the U.S.

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