One of the biggest modern problems is the excess of information… Wrong…

In a world where everyone has to have to have their say, they have to fill pages, blogs, wikipedia articles, and why not, print and online magazines, the biggest difficulty is discerning between correct information and fake information.

If until yesterday the "experts" or as Benni called them, the "technicians", were limited to bore friends at the bar, today the same wretched fill the web with distorted news, assumptions, "intuitions" on every field.

I have always been for free information and sharing of knowledge, but of the real one, not of people who speak well or badly of such a product, just for reported ideas, without having ever taken it in hand, tried or never even turned it on!

If once the web forced to have a minimum of competence to put its ideas online, today with the web 2.0 any ignorant is able to infect millions of people with their ignorance.

Wikipedia is one of the worst concentrations of ignorance in the world, although it is a basic idea, the lack of verification allows any ignorant to spread incorrect information, and the suffix -pedia has given a form of authority to this mass of uncontrolled information…

For several years now many people have replaced the concept (however incorrect) "it is written on books" declined in "was in the newspaper" and more recent "said the TV" with "it is written on wikipedia" for which reality becomes a manic distortion of the first information found (so the network and the speed of the search engine).

Out of laziness, because maybe we're all naive and we don't believe that there are people who are stupid enough to spread unverified or bad news that they spread bad news…

Well considering that according to some of these sources I'm writing to you from the afterlife or from countries I've never been to, isn't it bad, isn't it?

When we look for information on any topic the key to trust is the comparison, the verification of information finding a contrary voice. I know it may surprise you, but since many blogs are filled only to monetize with advertisements, finding the same news in different sources just means that they have made extensive use of copying and pasting.

Finding different points of view on information is a good place to start. A little critical sense helps us understand whether the information is valid or not. But in the end the experience and therefore direct verification is the only keystone that allows us to verify the information.

Browsing the web for over 20 years I realize how day after day search engines do small miracles in finding information in the sea of garbage that fills the web, so it is up to us to use the brain to discern what is gold and what is manure.

Good research