{"id":62762,"date":"2018-04-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foxtail\/2018\/04\/02\/irl-how-to-stop-social-media-misinformation\/"},"modified":"2018-04-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T00:00:00","slug":"irl-how-to-stop-social-media-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/en\/firefox\/irl-how-to-stop-social-media-misinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"How to stop the spread of disinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"

The truth is out there. But online, it feels like it\u2019s harder than ever to find. Consider this sobering statistic from a recent MIT study<\/a>: on Twitter, lies are 70% more likely to be retweeted than facts. Somehow, the information age became the disinformation age. Where do we go from here?<\/p>\n

All season long on IRL<\/a>, we\u2019ve been talking about how our online reality shapes and warps our life offline. Digital disinformation obscures a lot of things. But it also makes one thing clear. Being wired together isn\u2019t enough. We need human connections, philosophical connections and intellectual connections on top of our fiber optic cables, wifi signals and server rooms. What happens to information online \u2014 that\u2019s on us, too.<\/p>\n