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“When people search for a common symptom, the Internet is not always programed to provide the information they need.”
As the election recedes, medical and climate misinformation move to the forefront.
Plus: Big advertisers ban YouTube (not over vaccines), the National Cancer Institute wonders how to respond to health misinformation, and how to fill a data void.
Politics isn’t the only place where countering misinformation is tricky business: “The best evidence suggests that a more effective way of dealing with misinformation is not spreading it in the first place. That means avoiding repeating various myths — even if you’re debunking them.”
“We’ve become focused a little more on the paying subscribers.”
Founded in Pittsburgh, Fitt now has 16 sites across the country and has plans to grow.
A new generation of companies is seeking to inject themselves where the money gets made — in the space between customers and the products they want.
In expanding the healthy living blog, designers wanted to find way to give non-timely stories prominence and get readers to come back more often and for longer stretches. Justin Ellis
October 23, 2009