Commentary We live in an amazing information age. For the first time in human civilization, anyone—well anyone with access to the internet—can find out just about anything about any topic. A few words typed into a search engine, hit enter, click on a link, and voila! Instant knowledge.
Of course it is not as easy as all that. Just because a query returns some data doesn’t mean that all the information is accurate. We also live in an era of disinformation and misinformation, some of it spread deliberately through malicious actors (hello Russian troll factories!), and some shared by people who do not take the time to research whether what they post is really true (no, a popular English swear word did not arise from the phrase for “unlawful carnal knowledge” or “fornication under consent of the King”)….