Conspiracy Groups - Are they a cult?

“The four most dangerous words are do your own research,” says Chirag Shah, professor of information sciences at the University of Washington. “It seems counterintuitive because Im an educator and we encourage students to do this. The problem is that people dont know how to do this.”

 In other words, the elites want us to implicitly trust the mainstream media and stop asking questions or doing our own research because we “dont know how to do this.”

Joshua Tucker, co-author and co-director of NYUs Center for Social Media and Politics, told Vices Motherboard about the study. 

“The question here was what happens when people come across an article online that they are not sure whether it is true or false, so they look for more information about it using a search engine. You see exactly these kinds of suggestions in many digital literacy guides.” 

Joshua Tucker explained that the research team was interested in how people verify breaking news that just happened and hasnt yet had a chance to be verified by fact-checkers like Snopes or PolitiFact.

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