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Evaluating Information Quality
You are a journalist, it has been a slow news day and you are hunting for a good story. An e-mail arrives from a previously reliable contact telling you it has just become possible to send a message to a dead person. All you need to do is go to the Web site http://www.afterlifetelegrams.com/AFTERLIFE/index.html, compose a short message, pay a fee of $5 per word, and your message will be delivered in the near future by a person who is terminally ill.
What if another contact tells you about the free online pregnancy test offered at http://www.thepregnancytester.com, the Australian Government’s national public toilet map http://www.toiletmap.gov.au/, and the Texas Execution Information Center’s Web site http://www.txexecutions.org? ...
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