A safe for social media - Yehia El Amine - An-Nahar English

She researched fake news, keywords, read many case studies and academic papers on the matter and educated herself on how to differentiate between reality and fabrication. Khoury’s shaken up perspective of the Internet and its many conundrums has led to both educating her children’s use of social media and the amount spent on them.

This incident doesn’t only speak of a mother’s worry for her children’s use of the World Wide Web, and the quest toward media literacy, but it also raises a far deeper question within the sphere of media consumption.

What if the scourge of false news found on the Internet is not the fault of those who seek to manipulate public opinion or artificially-controlled bots? What if the main problem is ordinary people?