Social media provides avenue for dishonesty, JU prof Heather Downs tells Times-Union

From Lance Armstrong to John Edwards to Tiger Woods to Manti Te’o, there have been so many recent high-profile cases of dishonesty that the Florida Times-Union asked: Has lying reached epidemic proportions?

While it certainly seems so, reporter Greg Larson said in a Feb. 1 article, Jacksonville University Assistant Professor of Sociology Heather Downs said one thing is certain: Social media makes lying easier.

“The new social media creates an avenue to be dishonest,” Downs said in the article. “People have the ability to lie in a new way as they have adapted to technology.”

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