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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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[-] chitak166@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Twitter users choose to stay there.

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

"I have no choice, I have no other options" lol I can hear it in my sleep

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