Ms Stephanie Comey:

The other issue is that disinformation is a very fast-moving process while fact checking is a very slow process. There are immediate disadvantages and challenges in the process of fact checking and as Ms Craig has said, there is no question that the bigger issues in terms of disinformation, which are well documented, are online. There is a lot of research to support that and in that context, it is important to develop fact-checking capabilities and skills. There is learning involved in that, as well as time. There are also other mechanisms that can be used, including empowering audiences to use their own critical thinking and judgment to make calls on content. Wearing my media literacy hat I would always say that fact checking is really important but is a very complex, difficult and slow process and therefore, it may not solve all of the problems we would like it to solve.