A new survey by Harvard University finds more than two-thirds of young Americans disapprove of President Trump’s use of Twitter. The implication is that Millennials prefer news from the White House to be filtered through other source, not a president’s social media platform.

    Most Americans rely on social media to check daily headlines. Yet as distrust has risen toward all media, people may be starting to beef up their media literacy skills. Such a trend is badly needed. During the 2016 presidential campaign, nearly a quarter of web content shared by Twitter users in the politically critical state of Michigan was fake news, according to the University of Oxford. And a survey conducted for BuzzFeed News found 44 percent of Facebook users rarely or never trust news from the media giant.

    Young people who are digital natives are indeed becoming more skillful at separating fact from fiction in cyberspace. A Knight Foundation focus-group survey of young people between ages 14 and 24 found they use “distributed trust” to verify stories. They cross-check sources and prefer news from different perspectives—especially those that are open about any bias. “Many young people assume a great deal of personal responsibility for educating themselves and actively seeking out opposing viewpoints,” the survey concluded.

    Such active research can have another effect. A 2014 survey conducted in Australia, Britain, and the United States by the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that young people’s reliance on social media led to greater political engagement.

    Social media allows users to experience news events more intimately and immediately while also permitting them to re-share news as a projection of their values and interests. This forces users to be more conscious of their role in passing along information. A survey by Barna research group found the top reason given by Americans for the fake news phenomenon is “reader error,” more so than made-up stories or factual mistakes in reporting. About a third say the problem of fake news lies in “misinterpretation or exaggeration of actual news” via social media. In other words, the choice to share news on social media may be the heart of the issue. “This indicates there is a real personal responsibility in counteracting this problem,” says Roxanne Stone, editor in chief at Barna Group.

    So when young people are critical of an over-tweeting president, they reveal a mental discipline in thinking skills—and in their choices on when to share on social media.

答案精析：根据题干中的Knight Foundation survey可定位到第三段。此段第三句提到，年轻人多方核实新闻来源，更喜欢不同视角的新闻——尤其是那些对任何偏见持开放态度的新闻角度。由此可见，B选项正确。选项中的verify news对应原文的verify stories，referring to diverse resources对应原文的cross-check sources。

错项排除：cyberspace出现在第三段第一句，此句说的是在数字时代长大的年轻人变得更善于区分网络空间信息的真伪，这并不是说年轻人倾向于发表他们对网络空间的意见，A错。responsibility出现在第三段最后一句，此句说到很多年轻人在自我教育方面担负着更多的责任，但这只是一方面，原文并没有说到年轻人对其他方面也有强烈的责任感，C错。原文中说到，年轻人采取“分布式信任”来验证新闻的真伪，但并不是以此交流意见，D错。