In the online world, figures show that many, many people only read a headline before tweeting and sharing it. A crash course in critical thinking might be a valuable way to spend some of the free time imposed on us by Covid-19. In the midst of a worldwide pandemic panic, what is sorely needed is scepticism about some of the stuff that is circulating with immediacy and idiocy on social media. That WhatsApp that was forwarded to you might appear to come from a medical clinic, but does it actually exist? Angela Long lectures on digital media ethics and online skills and is a former newspaper journalist

Source: The Irish Times March 18, 2020 00:56 UTC