The rise of social media has not only changed how people stay connected, but also brought about considerable opportunities and chal- lenges in students' information behavior. The changing information horizon and shifting information behavior patterns have implications for information literacy(IL) education. College students are particularly active users of various social media platforms. They use social media for both academic and everyday life information seeking. While library and information science(LIS) professionals recognize the collaborative information seeking potential of social media, they are also cognizant of the varying quality of social media information. Given the ease with which informa- tion is posted and shared. misinformation-defined as information that has been shown to be inaccurate-can circulate on social media quickly and widely. Misinformation can cause suspicion and fear among the public. It can also have harmful effects on individuals' well-being. There is, therefore, pressing need to prepare students to be proficient social media users who are careful and responsible when sharing information on social media The efforts to develop an ILprogram suitable for the new information environment are multi-pronged. These include reexamining the scope and focus of IL, developing standards and best practices, and conducting empirical investigations on students' social media information behavior. In terms of the last cat egory, most studies have focused on perception and use of social media, as well as on the criteria and strategies used in eval uating the credibility of social media information. Extant studies are invaluable in shedding light on students as consumers of social media information. There is, however, a dearth of research on students as information sharers. While there are malevolent misinformation-spreaders on social media, misinformation would not have gone so viral without the participation of regular social media users. those who do not have mali- cious intent). Many regular users unwittingly propel the spread of misinformation when they undiscerningly forward misinformation to their own social networks. Some of this misin- formation sharing could be prevented. Different from rumor, which is defined as information that is unverifiable at the moment, misinformation is inaccurate information that has already been refuted. Thus, users could conceivably take steps to discover the in formation to be inaccurate. Currently, the extent to which students share misinformation with their online friends is unclear; if they do share misinformation, what motivates them to do so is also unclear.