Wednesday 22 February 2017

Best safer-browsing tools

Best safer-browsing tools

Since Web of Trust (WOT) lost the confidence of web users, Andy Shaw has been testing the alternatives

Our guide to fake news

Our guide to fake news

What you’re about to read is completely true, unlike many stories you see online. David Crookes exposes the facts behind fake news

What is ‘fake news’?


The term ‘fake news’ refers to stories that look real, but are deliberately false and misleading. Widely shared on social media, they entice people with their clickbait headlines and fool them with potentially damaging disinformation. By doing so, they have become one of the web’s most pressing problems, making it ever more difficult to distinguish between myth and reality.