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When I read my post “It must be true, I saw it on the web” the thought occurred to me “where do you find information on how people verify the information that they gain from web sites?” A Google search was the first thought that came to mind. And I was not disappointed. Overwhelmed maybe, but I was started on the right track.

The Stanford University Web Credibility Project was among the first of the attention grabbing offerings. It had links to 79 papers on the topic. So perhaps one criterion is lots of referenced papers.

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