Shocking study says poor quality online search results made people believe misinformation
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A study has found that people who performed online searches to verify the truthfulness of a piece of possible misinformation actually ended up believing it due to "poor quality results" from search engines.The findings, according to researchers, flag the need for online search engines to address the challenge posed by the appearance of non-credible information at the top of search results. The study conducted by a research team from the University of Central Florida, New York University, and Stanford University, US, aimed at understanding the impact of search results produced when people used search engines to evaluate the veracity of news. The findings, published in the journal Nature, highlighted the need for media literacy programs to ground recommendations in empirically tes...