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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 (www.vice.com)
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Twitter was shit before musk bought it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Sure, agreed, but what's his plan to fix this? Where's the progress? I see plenty of Qanon and bigots (and whatever you don't like) stinking up the place.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The issue with Twitter is people who think they've got a platform to speak loudly. When you have a platform like that, it's inherently going to be shit, no matter who runs it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Partly agree, but, like, anybody acting with a modicum of seriousness could do better. Of course it will never be perfect, or even great, but improvement is possible.