Scientists show how ‘doing your own research’ leads to believing conspiracies — This effect arises because of the quality of information churned out by Google’s search engine::Researchers found that people searching misinformation online risk falling into “data voids” that increase belief in conspiracies.

  • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    You realise you said “Exactly, the problem is the opposite of what you just said!”

    They can provide high quality results all they want, if the people reading them don’t understand what they’re reading they’ll instead find low quality sources that give them easy to understand information and that will usually be bad interpretations of real research.