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.

  • @[email protected]
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    11 months ago

    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.

    • @samus12345
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      1011 months ago

      Whatever they read that reaffirms their biases, especially.

      • lad
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        711 months ago

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