It’s on the Internet so it must be true, right?!

I like the way that the internet plays with political campaigners since of integrity. I mean, before now a contender had town hall meetings and shook hands with everyone. The internet has provided a smoke screen that the communications directors for Politian’s can hide behind. The phrase, “well if it is on the internet and a politician said it, well then, it must be true” only had the power because the omniscient world wide web is full of only accurate information, right?

On the positive side or maybe it is entertainment purposes, as voters we can keep update on all of the debates. Working as much as we do we cannot always catch the local news to find out the latest on the campaign trail. The internet provides minute by minute updates of stories whether true or false. It is for us to decide what accurate information is and what is not. Like the “Longtail provides and we decide!”

Maybe to that note, the negative side of the longtail, especially in Policitcs is that there is so much information it is really easy to find someone else who believes what we do, so instead of educating ourselves, we might just settle for someone who agrees with us because it was on the internet, so it must be true! We might not look for a well rounded non-biased answer. Know your sources and your candidates I say.

Looks like Grace found the answer :factcheck.org.