He, however, is optimistic the younger generation is "a lot more sceptical", having grown up in an environment of fake news. Mr Fernandez added that with new technology that can produce say, deep fake videos, it will become very difficult to figure out the fake from the real. In the absence of accurate facts, you can't have discussion and you can't have a democratic debate."
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And you will undermine the ability to have an agreement on the basic facts upon which we then have a discussion about what to do about the situation out there, or how to deal with it. "If we don't, we will undermine trust in public institutions.
He added that it is down to news outlets to get the truth out in a "credible and responsible way" so as to address the concerns that members of the public have. "It is both a boon and a bane in the sense that because there is so much fake news, there is a shift towards more credible voices, and that's where professional media groups have a role to play," said Mr Fernandez, who is also editor-in-chief of Singapore Press Holdings' English/Malay/Tamil Media Group. He said the paper is trying to verify it. He shared how on Thursday morning, a video allegedly showing birds falling out of the sky in Indonesia due to the haze went viral, and readers wondered if it was real. "With so much fake news out there, our audience is saying to us 'we need help to figure this out'," he said. The Straits Times editor Warren Fernandez, part of the panel of four, said the rise of fake news can be a bane as well as a boon for media outlets.
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