Given below are two statements

Statement I: Communication can facilitate truth.

Statement II: Communication can also be used to obscure truth.

In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below

Key PointsStatement I: Communication can facilitate truth.

• Access to reliable and accurate facts is critical for making decisions about how to communicate and act ethically. 
• Without facts being as reliable and accurate as circumstances allow, communicators are more likely to do harm or create injustice than do good and act fairly.
• Therefore, the communication of truth should be done in a manner that is conversant with various sources of knowledge and be accountable to feedback from these sources of truth

Statement II: Communication can also be used to obscure truth.

• Truth-default theory offers an account of human deceptive communication where people are honest unless they have a motive to deceive and people passively believe others unless suspicion and doubt are actively triggered.
• When a stranger is lying, human beings default to assuming the truth in others.
• We want to believe that what others tell us is true, and we’ll default to truth unless, or until, our doubts can’t be explained or rationalized.
• Thus, in some cases, it might be helpful to explain the truth and sometimes, it might make the truth unclear. 

Hence both statements are correct.