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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] 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Also, the people "doing their own research" often aren't intelligent enough to know what is real versus what is made-up garbage, and are gullible enough to believe whatever they happen to read.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Whatever they read that reaffirms their biases, especially.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

So "doin research" = "throwing away anything contradicting to your views". Makes sense ¯\_(ツ)_/¯