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Originally Posted by NuclearFart
Of course you can find that stuff in a library, but the point is in the processing of the data. It is easier to find credible information when you require it to go through publishing/editing, and libraries have dedicated sections to objective data that have undergone some sort of filtering. This is not the case for the internet.
I agree with your sentence though, and that leads to my point - most people lack that ability.
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wikipedia has editors that go through articles and remove false or misleading information, and the major news sites have the same publishing standards as their magazine counterparts (for the most part)
think of it like this. if some random nobody with a twitter account posts a Flames trade, it will get hits but usually no one will actually believe them until something shows up on TSN. the internet is no different than the library, you have your certain areas that you know to be as close to fact as possible and others that aren't regulated. you can't just paint with a broad brush and say the entire internet is full of misinformation, it's just a form of media the same as books or TV