Yes.

It's actually sad. Half the time I feel like the people who post the tweets know what they are doing but do it anyway to get more likes/retweets.

Yes. It’s like people are extremely gullible. I always agree with “ Look farther than what you’re eyes show you”, but the speed in which I see people on social media fully believe a conspiracy theory, or misinformation , is scary

I hate Misinformation
All my homies hate Misinformation

Lol I was just being silly but I make to sure to keep an eye on a little bit of everything and come to my own conclusions.

This

Exactly why i never believed in santa when i first heard of him

how do you fact check things?

Diversify your search engines (i mostly use duckduckgo) and use your brain

First thing i see on my timeline this morning. 46k RTs 100k likes

Problem with social media is that there is way too much unfiltered information and twitter, fb isn't any good at filtering them either.

Good idea would be to consume less news (unless it directly affects our interests) and do more fact checking for important informations.

Number of fake news that was being shared during virus lockdown

Misinformation has been going on since they told us Chris Columbus discovered America. You just have to make sure you're fact checking the info being consumed.