Posted on 10/26/2015 8:12:20 AM PDT by Beowulf9
Plenty of users take what they read online at face value, which some social experiments have proven. The average user often doesn’t check facts or consider whether the source is credible.
“You look at a Wikipedia article and assume that it all must be true,” said Christo Wilson, a computer science professor at Northeastern University who researched algorithms and personalization extensively. ”Or you search for something on Google and think the results are subjective and correct off the bat.”
(Excerpt) Read more at powermore.dell.com ...
When my mother finds an outstanding new fact or new way to boost energy that she read on the internet, I have to remind her that it was probably written by a 14 year old.
No one should be sanguine about being able to influence outsiders, with Google “authoritatively” telling them that this site “links to infected sites.”
It was still doing it 2 day ago. I write to Google and told Jim also.
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