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The number of internet users represents 62.5 percent of the world’s population.
Users on mobile devices reached 67.1 percent of the population.
56.4 percent of users are worried about not knowing what is true and what is not on the network.
The internet is today the trusted library of humanity, that is why many of the things found in this digital world for many people are real, no matter what the source is. But it has already become clear that everything that is achieved on the internet is not completely real and as an experiment, A French physicist shared what a slice of sausage is and passed it off as a star, earning many comments and opening the debate on how easy it can be to fool people in the digital world.
According to the indicators of the report by We Are Social and Hootsuitepoints out that the number of Internet users in the world reached four thousand 950 million people, which represents 62.5 percent of the world’s population, about seven thousand 910 million people.
Likewise, the same report details that, in terms of internet users on mobile devices, in January 2022 they reached 67.1 percent of the population, that is, 5 thousand 310 million people, which represents an increase of 1.8 percent year-on-year, and to have more context on this figure, it is an increase of 95 million users in the last 12 months.
Concern about misinformation and the spread of false news on the Internet, and especially on social networks, is increasing, therefore, 56.4 percent of Internet users around the world express concern about not knowing what is true and what is not in the field of Internet news, according to the Digital 2021 report.
The chorizo that looks like a star
French physicist Etienne Kleincaused controversy on Twitter after sharing the image of a slice of chorizo posing as a star, exposing how easy it is to fool people on the internet.
Klein’s tweet generated many responses from netizens, but also even there were some media that took up the image and the original post as “evidence” of what should be an impressive reminder capture of the wonder of the James Webb telescope.
Photo of Proxima du Centaure, l’étoile la plus proche du Soleil, situated at 4.2 année-lumière de nous.
Elle a été prize par le JWST.
Ce level de détails… A nouveau world is revealed jour après jour. pic.twitter.com/88UBbHDQ7Z—Etienne KLEIN (@EtienneKlein) July 31, 2022
After an hour of posting the image, the physicist wrote his revelation in another tweet, since in reality the object of the image would not come from anywhere in space.
“In view of some comments, I feel compelled to clarify that this tweet showing an alleged snapshot of Proxima Centauri was in a playful way. Let us learn to distrust both the arguments of authority and the spontaneous eloquence of certain images”, he said.
The original story of the image was not from the scientist Klein, since the first to pass a sausage through a star was the theoretical astrophysicist Peter Coleswho did the experiment a day earlier, on July 30, but his tweet didn’t get the same response as Klein’s, probably because his image has less contrast.
These people demonstrated the importance of Internet users knowing how to analyze and differentiate what is a fake news among everything that circulates on the internet.
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