## 4.1 Anyone can post something

If fake news is nothing new, why is it such a problem these days? The answer is simple: thanks to the rise of the internet and social media, almost everyone can now post and share texts and images.

Sharing a video of your pet doing something funny is of course completely innocent. Sharing your opinion about the latest film cannot hurt either. Unfortunately, that is not the only way in which social media is used. Someone with harmful intentions can use it to spread fake news and disinformation and then social media are suddenly a lot less innocent than they may seem at first.

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Arjen Lubach shows concrete examples of fake news and disinformation that was spread en masse during the COVID-19 pandemic.