NY Times recently published an article, A Senior Fellow at the Institute of Nonexistence, that you might read as a cautionary tale about the potential danger of using online sources. Some guys "created an elaborate Internet hoax complete with a fake policy institute and a phony adviser to Senator John McCain." Think you're more clever than the folks at Fox News and MSNBC that fell for it? Possibly.
What do you know about the people or organization responsbile for an article/webpage/poll? How can you check up on them? There are lots of clever little pranksters out there...watch your back.
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