{"id":7328,"date":"2025-10-21T11:00:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T11:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=7328"},"modified":"2025-10-21T11:00:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T11:00:32","slug":"over-half-of-romanians-believe-5g-and-ai-are-used-to-manipulate-the-population-survey-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=7328","title":{"rendered":"Over half of Romanians believe 5G and AI are used to manipulate the population, survey finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than half of Romanians (55.6%) believe that modern technologies such as 5G and artificial intelligence (AI) are being used to manipulate the population, while nearly 60% think pandemics and economic crises are part of secret plots by global powers, according to a new survey by polling agency Inscop, as quoted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biziday.ro\/336146-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Biziday.ro<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inscop.ro\/octombrie-2025-barometrul-informat-ro-inscop-romania-intre-magie-si-ezoterie\/\" target=\"_blank\">survey<\/a>, based on data collected in October, examined Romanians\u2019 trust in science and rational thinking compared to their inclination toward conspiracy theories, mysticism, and alternative medicine.<\/p>\n<p>According to the findings, 61.4% of respondents believe that major decisions in Romania are secretly controlled by foreign powers. Meanwhile, 55.6% said technologies like 5G and AI are used for manipulation &#8211; a view most common among people over 60, with primary education, and supporters of the Social Democrats (PSD) and AUR parties.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, 58.4% agreed that pandemics and economic crises are the result of secret plans by powerful groups. In contrast, 53.5% of respondents rejected the claim that vaccines are used to control the population, a belief more prevalent among younger and highly educated participants.<\/p>\n<p>Despite these conspiratorial views, 64.8% said they trust modern medicine over alternative treatments such as herbal or energy-based therapies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>About half of the respondents reported relying on reason and science when making important decisions, though a similar share said faith and science are equally important.<\/p>\n<p>irina.marica@romania-insider.com<\/p>\n<p>(Photo source:\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamstime.com\/tpibernik_info\">Tpibernik<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamstime.com\/stock-photos\">Dreamstime.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than half of Romanians (55.6%) believe that modern technologies such as 5G and artificial intelligence (AI) are being used to manipulate the population, while nearly 60% think pandemics and economic crises are part of secret plots by global powers, according to a new survey by polling agency Inscop, as quoted by Biziday.ro. The survey, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}