Polotics/Technology

The authors comments on why we believe things that are not true. I believe he did and excellent job in doing so. The example of broadcasters Edward R. Morrow and Walter conkrite exemplied trustworthy information in relations to the billions of search engins we cannot trust that come up today. I am a vicitim of base rate fallacey in which I favour  immediate searches when researching news and information for my own leisure and course work . I also believe I am a member of the confirmation bias every time I reserch for course work by scrolling on one site and finding the information I am looking for without actually reviewing two or three sites thorougly for similar or baised information. Confirmation bias occured a few weeks ago when I was quickly referencing a date on the Cold War era on wikipedia and was given faulty information. The 'Department of Information' would be a great source to finalize the real facts. However, a source like this would not work. who's really going to admitt their information? Who wants to be penalized and stripped of their speech? and finally the search engins that has emerged today would be disenfranchised, causing dilemmas on people leisure. Some people like "BS"