From a Washington Post story by Heather Kelly headlined “How to avoid falling for and spreading misinformation about Ukraine”:
Anyone with a phone and an Internet connection is able to watch the war in Ukraine unfold live online, or at least some version of it. Across social media, posts are flying up faster than most fact-checkers and moderators can handle, and they’re an unpredictable mix of true, fake, out of context and outright propaganda messages.
How do you know what to trust, what not to share and what to report? Here are some basic tools everyone should use when consuming breaking news online.