Report on Harvard Business Review : Becoming a More Critical Consumer of Information

It's easy to get caught up with news on social media which could be manipulated and misinterpreted to suit a narrative. It's our responsibility to do a through research before we share it to our peers, friends and family. Because anything online has the potential of becoming viral over the web and could impact a person's real life.

It is best to rely on expert's opinion who has experience in the particular field or in other cases wait for both sides to present their stories before we judge or make an opinion on a situation. Even while choosing to rely on the expert opinion, you always have to look over the relevance, the area of observations ( how brad or short concerning the demographic ) and the humility of the expert.

Social Media has both the pro's and con's, while the internet holds someone accountable for their actions, it could be spreading misleading information too, so in this day and age where google is widely used, jumping on the trend to stay relevant or "woke" without any background research of the situation/ person/ thing is ignorant and lazy.

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