To deal with disinformation that only feed to our bias online, it is important to get out from our personalized searches when a website algorithm selectively guesses what information a user would like to see based on information about the user, such as location, past click-behaviour and search history.
The nature of false information that the mainstream media rectified also changed within those four months – from “fabricated misinformation” to “reconfigured misinformation”.
Apart from tampering people’s memory from remembering how the actual event or story goes, misinformation and disinformation makes it harder for people to see the truth.
An important element of success in the information world is information integrity.
Information integrity as the accuracy, consistency and reliability of information.
Importance of Information as...