Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Truth using the internet

Finding facts on controversial subjects over the internet is hard work, especially since most younger people rely on social media, YouTube, and comedy shows to get their facts. The problem with this is that all of these platforms are pumped with emotion and are genuinely designed to feed you content you already like. This makes getting properly informed about things like politics, feminism and religion almost impossible. Websites like wolframalpha are an ideal counter to this, because they just present emotionless facts - however, the website isn't advanced enough to handle complicated queries. In the meantime we'll just have to put up with people getting less informed and more opinionated about already controversial problems.


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