For coming political battles, people need to be aware of how the current information ecosystem regularly is promoting falsehoods and skewing views about important issues. But we do not need to stand back and accept widespread misperceptions as the new reality. There are several things people and organizations can do to protect themselves for what... See more

social media provide citizens with new opportunities to access information, express opinions and participate in democratic processes, they can also undermine democracy by distorting information, promoting false stories and facilitating political manipulation.

Some Data on the Opportunity & Desire for Trust: As we’ve discussed before in Implications, the new “trust, but verify” is becoming “verify, then trust” as we enter an era in which we can no longer believe our eyes. Here are a few key findings worth sharing from a research study our team recently did at Adobe:

In the US, 70% of people said it’s... See more