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We've stopped trusting social media – and that's a good thing

I'm one of the growing number of users cynical about social networks such as Facebook. But there are upsides to all this digital doubt, says Lara Williams

By Lara Williams

23 January 2018

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Faith no more

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Only 1 in 4 Britons trusts social media. That’s according to the . It also found that 64 per cent of UK adults couldn’t tell real journalism from “fake news” on such sites, while 63 per cent said the likes of Facebook aren’t transparent enough. It is a .

That is a pretty damning verdict. And yet social media, whether we admit it or not, is a mainstay in most of our lives. For instance, 76 per cent of adults in the UK…

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