Ms Martina Chapman:

This is a really good point to pick up on one of Dr. Murphy's earlier points. Unless we have hard evidence into, say, the categories of 16- to 18-year-olds, and are monitoring that on a regular basis, it is very difficult to say with any certainty, unless we have the data to back it up, what level of media literacy or awareness exists or how people interrogate information. If we had that body of evidence, it would be much easier to sit here and say we think a particular group of people are more vulnerable to maybe misinformation or disinformation. We would be able to look at that and then create bespoke interventions we think would be most likely for that.

To pick up on Deputy Ring's comment earlier on, I have not seen the research he mentioned. However, from a media literacy point of view, I am a bit more reassured to hear that young people and children up to the age of six or eight are actually questioning what they see online. I would not necessarily see that as bad news.