Ms Erika Hunter:

It is easy for misinformation to spread like wildfire. One person could post one thing and then everyone posts it and then everyone believes it. We did a lesson in civic, social and political education, CSPE, in third year in my school about how to detect fake news, how to find out whether something is real. People have to dive in and look at the background to see if it matches up or not. However, it is very easy to believe things people see online if they just pick up their phones for two seconds. They put it straight back down and think something has happened, but it is not always the case.

It is dangerous because someone you do not know could say something about you and everyone might believe it. Sometimes, that is just life. People will say things and you just have to say that you know it is not true. When people make up lies about politicians, politicians have to back themselves on that and say it did not happen or admit it did. A lot of people do not know how to detect fake news because it is hard. People have to spend a while making sure something is real and doing background checks.