Pope thunders against fake news: "Sometimes websites are toxic"

The Pope returns against fake news and stresses that "the use of digital media, especially social media, raised a number of serious ethical issues".

"Sometimes and in some places, media sites - he says in a message to the world congress of Catholic communicators in Seoul - have become places of toxicity, incitement to hatred and false news".

It is therefore necessary to "fight lies and disinformation", he adds, emphasizing "the need to help people, especially young people, to develop a critical sense, learning to distinguish true from false, right from wrong, good from bad".