People should be on the lookout for false claims on their social-media feeds. He says private social-media groups have become laboratories for misinformation. He also advises readers to not let misinformation go unchallenged.
“If they have someone in their life who’s sharing a lot of these kinds of problematic pieces to maybe have a conversation with them or speak up and challenge them or help fact-check some of these things because they’re being shared in a private setting that researchers and fact-checkers can’t always access,” Adams urges.