Don’t blame search engines for sending users to unreliable sites

Search-engine algorithms are not the main force steering people towards misinformation — Internet users’ own clicks are, according to an analysis of 14 billion search-result pages from the search engine Bing and some 8,000 webpages visited by Bing users¹.

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-03574-0

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