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Hi, I'm John Green. Welcome to Crash Course Navigating Digital Information. So, the Internet is a place where you can meet friends for life from halfway around the world. You can keep in touch with your loved ones, learn new languages, and pick up new skills. It's also a place where your mother can tag you in an extremely detailed Facebook post about the night of your birth that all your friends can see. It's a place where you can accidentally like your ex's new boyfriend's Instagram selfie from three years ago. God, it would be hard to be a young person on the internet right now. I really admire your fortitude and resilience. These days, a lot of us are asking whether the Internet is a net positive or a net negative in our lives. But I tend to think that question might be what Buddhist Zen masters called a question wrongly put. Instead, the better question might be how can I make the internet a more positive force in my life and the lives of others? And part of the answer, I think, is that better information leads to better decision making, which leads to a better world. So, for the sake of our collective souls, let's improve our information sorting. Music So, as you may remember from our first episode, we've teamed up with MediaWise, with support from [Unknown]. And it brings you this series. Our friends at the Stanford History Education Group, or SHEG, have done a lot of research on how internet users evaluate the information they find. They've tested middle school, high school, and college students. Also, history professors and professional fact-checkers, who were by far the best at judging the reliability of information. Professional fact-checkers work with news organizations to verify facts. Sometimes, that means they...