More than a third of internet users are unaware that online content might be false or biased, according to new Ofcom research. 

Every minute sees 500 hours of content uploaded to YouTube, 5,000 videos viewed on TikTok and 695,000 stories shared on Instagram. Given the sheer volume of information at the touch of our smartphones, having the right critical skills and understanding to decipher fact from fiction has never been more important.

In this first episode of Ofcom’s podcast A Life Online, we hear from experts including Professor Rasmus Nielson, Director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and Professor of Political Communication at the University of Oxford, and Rebecca Skippage, Disinformation Editor, BBC News, on the spread of misinformation and disinformation online and what can be done to tackle it.