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[[File:News hierarchy.jpg|alt=News hierarchy|center|960x960px|News hierarchy]] | '''You can't trust anything you read on the web as fact unless you fully understand the objectives of the source it comes from. Below is how Wikipedia structures which sources to trust.'''[[File:News hierarchy.jpg|alt=News hierarchy|center|960x960px|News hierarchy]] | ||
[[File:Weighting hierarchy.png|alt=Weighting hierarchy|thumb|Weighting hierarchy]] | [[File:Weighting hierarchy.png|alt=Weighting hierarchy|thumb|Weighting hierarchy]] | ||
News is not a term in science. News in our society represents a source of authoratitative informations which does not disclose its own biases. | News is not a term in science. News in our society represents a source of authoratitative informations which does not disclose its own biases. | ||
In [[wikipedia:The_Library_of_Babel|Borges' The Library of Babel]], there is a thought experiment where all possible 410-page books of a certain format and character set are available to anyone. Essentially, within our own confines this represents all knowledge humans '''could''' possibly produce. This is analogous to the internet. | In [[wikipedia:The_Library_of_Babel|Borges' The Library of Babel]], there is a thought experiment where all possible 410-page books of a certain format and character set are available to anyone. Essentially, within our own confines this represents all knowledge humans '''could''' possibly produce. This is analogous to the internet. | ||
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You can't trust anything you read on the web as fact unless you fully understand the objectives of the source it comes from. Below is how Wikipedia structures which sources to trust.
News is not a term in science. News in our society represents a source of authoratitative informations which does not disclose its own biases.
In Borges' The Library of Babel, there is a thought experiment where all possible 410-page books of a certain format and character set are available to anyone. Essentially, within our own confines this represents all knowledge humans could possibly produce. This is analogous to the internet.