Scientists Explain Why ‘Doing Your Own Research’ Leads to Believing Conspiracies vice.com/en/article/v7bjpm/sci…

“study published on Wednesday in Nature has found that using online search engines to vet #conspiracies can actually increase the chance that someone will believe it. The researchers point to a known problem in search called "#DataVoids." Sometimes, there's not a lot of high-quality information to counter misleading headlines or surrounding fringe theories”

Scientists Explain Why ‘Doing Your Own Research’ Leads to Believing Conspiracies

Researchers found that people searching misinformation online risk falling into “data voids” that increase belief in conspiracies.

^{Mirjam Guesgen (VICE)}