Are we becoming less informed in the Age of Information?

With the victory of Brexit and now Trump, some suggest the electorate is uninformed. Others say it's the media and experts who are out of touch. Are we all becoming less informed in the Age of Information?

The headlines screamed "Click Me!"

"Pope Francis Shocks World, Supports Donald Trump for President"
"Wikileaks Confirms Hillary Sold Weapons to ISIS"
"Tens of Thousands of Scientists Declare Climate Change a Hoax"

Of course those weren't real news stories based on facts. But they spread like wildfire on social media.

Fake news stories about Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton dominated the news towards the end of the U.S. election campaign often outperforming real news stories and more popular than stories debunking them.

It's not like we haven't seen satirical news before. Saturday Night Live, The Onion, or CBC Radio's own This is That walk the line between poking fun at real news and being mistaken for real news.

But it seems we've entered the era of 'post-truth' so much so the Oxford Dictionary recently declared that the 'Word of the Year.'

In an attempt to counter lying sources and lying politicians, traditional media rolled out fact-checking journalism. But partisans claim someone should check the fact checkers because they're biased too.

Some lay blame on Facebook feeds and Google searches. Many say algorithms designed to filter our preferences turned our digital social existence into an echo chamber, where we don't hear any views other than those we might approve.

Others single out 'political bots' for skewing U.S. election results by automatically generating a slew of fake news headlines.

With all of the information — real and fake — competing for your attention, how do you sort through it all? Do you make an effort to look at information you might not agree with, in order to ensure you have the full picture?

Our question: "Do you think we're becoming less informed in the Age of Information?"