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2026-07-10 17:25 UTC
"The internet is full of misinformation. That's by design, experts say
New studies find misinformation running rampant on Tik Tok, search engines, and even books listed on Amazon"
""We're living at a time that I've categorized as a knowledge crisis," says University of Alberta law professor Tim Caulfield.
"We have access to more information now than ever before in human history ... despite that, we've never been more misled, more confused.""
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/misleading-information-internet-1.7536124
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@CStamp@mastodon.social 2026-07-10 17:26
"In a 2024 study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, Caulfield and his colleagues looked at the quality of books about cancer on Amazon. "We found 49 per cent of the books had misleading content in it, and some of it was just completely atrocious," said Caulfield. They also found that on the first page of results on Amazon, 70 per cent of the content was misleading. "And once again, sometimes just hardcore bunk," he adds.