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In the latest Reuters Institute Digital News Report, less than four in ten people said that they trust most news most of the time (that’s 38% surveyed in January 2020, a fall of four percentage points from 2019) The Council of Europe defines it as three “notions”: dis-information, mis-information and mal-information. We crave the truth, but data shows that data shows we force-feed ourselves lies. The why behind the creation is integral to understanding the misinformation ecosystem, but the what — simply the ability to identify content as true or false — is highly difficult for humans.