In a short period, we have created a system that enables and encourages us to share information, while at the same time renouncing any responsibility for formally educating people in its use. This dependence on textbooks has distorted education, and made it vulnerable to indoctrination. But, above all, textbooks make us dependent on a specific source of information, preventing us from developing our own criteria. Technology isn’t going to help us solve the root problem of our willingness to share fake news. It is only by adapting our education systems, and now, to the changing times we live in that we will stop the spread of fake news.

Source: Forbes March 09, 2018 12:22 UTC