Glad to see you here! Let’s start the topic with some shocking data. 🧐

Nowadays, fake news spreads faster than true news on social media. Research proved that true news could seldom reach more than 1000 Twitter users, but false news stories could reach over 10,000 people. This becomes more usual during the pandemic. A recent study found that people who use social media for news  (that’s you and me🙌🏻) are more likely to believe false information about Covid-19. On the other hand, people who get news from traditional media like TV and newspaper (maybe your grandpa👨🏻‍🦳 and grandma👵🏼), are more likely to follow official instructions. 

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Okay, but why is this important to us? Here is the situation in Hong Kong 🇭🇰:

According to the Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2020, 66% of Hong Kong people use social media for source news but only 18% of Hong Kong interviewers trust in social media.

Imagine that 66% of people have the chance to expose in fake news, isn’t it terrible? The study also shows that only 18% of Hong Kong interviewers trust in social media. Obviously, it is a problem that we are all concerning.

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How about the world?

56% of people across the world concerned about what is fake and what is real with online news.

(Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2020)

Worldwide people agreed that Social Media is the biggest problem of distributing false information. (Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2020)

It revealed that over half of the media users in the world worried about the issue of fake information and especially with those on social media!