How to fight fake

When you decide what to share with your friends on social media, do you ever consider whether what you are sharing is true or not?

I posed this question to high-school and university students in teaching and research projects this year and the consistent answer was no. The sharing criterion, it turned out, was almost always whether it was amusing or something they had not heard before. Making their friends laugh was the priority.

In focus-group interviews for a University of Otago