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：此道题目需要理解全文意思进行作答。第一段说到，年轻人反对总统使用推特。在第二段中，作者提到，人们可能开始提高其文学素养能力。第三段第一句中表明，年轻人变得更善于区分网络上的信息真伪。最后一段中，作者赞扬了年轻人在批判过度发推文的总统时，他们表现出了思维技巧和何时选择分享信息到社交媒体上的自律精神。综上所述，本题选A。

错项排除：本文第一段中提到年轻人反对总统过度发布推文，但这只是为了引出主题，B错误。原文多处提到年轻人不信任社交媒体上的新闻，C错误。第五段中提到，人们转发新闻表达自己的价值观和兴趣（re-share news as a projection of their values and interests），但这只是文章的细节内容，不能概括文章的大意，D错误。