It's our duty as citizens to combat the pandemic's digital disinformation

The digital age, like the age of the printing press, has transformed our modes of social interaction -- our reading and writing habits and methods of communication and consumption. It is also disrupting long-standing institutions, threatening old hierarchies of knowledge and power. The benefits of this transformation are manifest. But the near universal availability of information also brings certain dangers. One is the prevalence of disinformation online, and the attendant challenge of discriminating between reliable and unreliable information.