Imagine millions of people, freely able to publish
anything they like on the Internet whether they
are right or wrong. Just remember the "million
monkey's a million typewriters" joke from
"What is the Internet?" page.
The moral of the story (or joke), don't believe
everything you read. The Internet has less quality
control than the tabloid newspapers!
As a word of advice for finding reliable information,
try to find multiple sites with similar information.
It is unlikely that two or more unrelated sites
will tell the same tale about spaghetti coming
from spaghetti trees. The more sites you can find
confirming the same information, will increase
the reliability and validity of the information
you have found.
However you can be sure of some things, web sites
such as the BBC web site, Sky news, WHSmiths and
other web sites of known companies or organisations
are likely to have truthful and reliable content.
You just have to bear in mind that the content
on a site called 'billys-world-news.com' might
be questionable!
But hey, why should you believe what I'm telling
you? cos you're reading this on the Internet,
or because you know me? ...interesting! ;-)
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