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Introduction

The World Wide Web can be a treasure chest or a garbage dump (and everything in between).

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Since anyone with access to a networked computer can put anything there, the Internet provides a great deal of misinformation, scams, parodies, shoddy fact-checking, propaganda, opinion masquerading as fact, and sales pitches passing as research.

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