The Internet

Chris Nolan informed our class on many interesting things about the internet. Anybody can post just about anything onto the internet. Websites such as Wikipedia have information that has been added by people that are not experts just voicing their opinion on a certain topic. This can be very misleading when doing research. When doing important research, Databases that peer reviewed can be very reliable. Usually papers that use multiple resources are the most reliable. People can also post propaganda on the internet and not have it taken off. One example of this was the MArtin Luther King Jr. website that was run by a white supremacy group. There were all types of lies on the website, yet it looked legitimate. You can never be too careful when deciding if a website is not backed by facts.