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Teaching information verification skills has become increasingly important in the current post-truth era. Through surveys and interviews with teenagers and young adults in the Middle East and United States, this study explores the changing patterns of social media use for news and actions they take to verify news stories online. Findings show younger students are moving toward more visual platforms, such as Instagram, and private messaging apps to get news. Information verification activities, however, are more frequently practiced by older people who use Facebook and Twitter. Implications for journalism and mass communication curricula are discussed.

The article presents a case study about the safety and crime prevention initiatives in and around schools in Great Britain. The data in the research includes a school based survey completed by 119 school based employees, and in-depth interviews with 17 adults involved in the initiative. Moreover, the research shows that the nature of schools means that high profile incidents are a shared experience and affect everybody and look carefully at the evidence available.