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-'''Our collective genes and culture have evolved in a world where any information was deemed important as it was scarce. The internet era changed this by  providing an overabundance of information, our issue now is not scarcity but validity. Nowadays, much of the information is not presented on the merit of its reliability but on the basis of getting our attention. Wikipedia has tried to combat the reliability issue by listing which sources hierarchically:'''[[File:News hierarchy.jpg|alt=News hierarchy|center|960x960px|News hierarchy]]
+'''Information used to be scarce, it is now in overabundance.  Our issue used to be a crisis of scarcity but now it is validity. Wikipedia has tried to combat this by listing which sources a most reliable:'''[[File:News hierarchy.jpg|alt=News hierarchy|center|960x960px|News hierarchy]]
 [[File:Corporate owners-media.png|alt=Oligo|thumb|'''Figure 2'''. Oligopolies of media.]]
 [[File:Weighting hierarchy.png|alt=Weighting hierarchy|thumb|'''Figure 3'''. Scientific weighting hierarchy.]]