Let faith falter

• Autores: Lara Williams
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3163, 2018, págs. 24-25
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Only 1 in 4 Britons trusts social media, according to the annual Edelman Trust Barometer survey. It also found that 64% of UK adults couldn't tell fake news apart on such sites, while 63% said the likes of Facebook aren't transparent enough. It is a similar picture in the US. That is a damning verdict. And yet social media is a mainstay in most lives--in the UK, 76% of adults use social media and spend almost 3 hours a day on average consuming it. That is a lot of time engaging with platforms we don't trust