The World Health Organization has joined TikTok to teach teens about Coronavirus through informative videos. As fears of a possible global pandemic rise and conspiracy theories snowball about the virus, expert bodies like the WHO are taking a role in communicating the facts.

While people often regard documentaries as an educational form of entertainment, three such films on Netflix have been criticised for spreading misinformation. As more people turn to alternative media for info, they’re sometimes putting too much faith in brands to do the fact-checking for them.

Is Facebook ‘over’? How can brands avoid accusations of woke-washing? What does the future of podcasts look like? And how are we becoming more mindful of our social media usage? In this part of the 2020 Expert Outlook, we speak to four experts about how people are interacting globally.

Young people are consuming the news in vastly different ways to generations before them, but news brands still don’t know how to speak to them. How can young people get the information they need to be informed citizens and is it time to rethink what news means for the next generation?