FORBES – 28/08/2019
Kalev Leetaru
What happened to that quaint era once upon a time when society was taught not to believe everything it read on the Internet? When students were taught how to conduct research and required to verify the information they shared or relied upon? When stories were subjected to fact checking before being published rather than after they have gone viral? When people spent the time to investigate matters before commenting on them? Looking at the state of the Web today we see that the rise of “fake news” and “deep fakes” comes not because of technological advances but rather because we as a society started believing everything we read on the Internet.