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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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[-] ComradeKhoumrag@infosec.pub 1 points 10 months ago

Left wing mainstream media may be pro science, but they rarely report good scientific articles. They report science headlines because their target demographic trusts scientists. So it can be more influential in setting an agenda

[-] GnomeKat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 10 months ago

Mainstream media.. left wing.. all corporate media is neo liberal and firmly on the right.

[-] trolololol@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The whole media and us population is right wing, except Bernie which tones it down so he has a fiddle of hope to get elected. So US POLITICS range from right to far far right

Change my mind

[-] SpookyUnderwear@eviltoast.org -1 points 10 months ago

The majority of mainstream media, save for Fox News (and perhaps one or two others) is left wing my American standards.

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