Silver lining in the battle against fake news

Asst Prof Elmie Nekmat from Dept of Communications and New Media at NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and Dr Carol Soon from the Institute of Policy Studies at NUS shared the findings of their survey on Singaporeans’ susceptibility to fake news. They found that younger people are more likely to believe they are less susceptible to falling for fake news, an optimistic bias that could hurt their ability to discern the truthfulness of online information.

• The Straits Times, 2 November 2017, Opinion, pA27