A pupil’s comment about planes shocked me to my core

I can’t help but feel that the spread of online misinformation is one of the most pressing issues of our time (Picture: Getty Images)I’ll never forget sitting in a sunny school field on sports day a couple of years ago and seeing one of my students claim that aeroplanes are spreading ‘chemtrails’.It shocked me that a bright, articulate and high-achieving person could so nonchalantly regurgitate an online conspiracy that chemicals were being sprayed on the population for