Why we started the “How to Search?” project
More and more information, less and less time to check it. Here’s why we decided to change that.
As access to the internet and artificial intelligence keeps expanding, the amount of information we come across every day is growing faster than our ability to evaluate it. We scroll through dozens of headlines, read the first sentence, and make the “true or false” decision in a split second — most often without making it at all.
Watching this phenomenon, we noticed a problem: people increasingly find it difficult to tell true, verified information apart from false or out-of-context information. We look at headlines, don’t read the details, and — most importantly — almost never check the source. This applies both to ordinary news and to AI-generated answers, which can sound just as confident when they’re right as when they’re wrong.
The scale of the problem in numbers
This isn’t just an impression — research confirms it.
Sources: Santander Consumer Bank (Poland) · NASK, Social Research Unit · Interia.pl survey · MIT (Vosoughi, Roy, Aral), Science 2018
Fake news floods search engines and social media
False information — fake news — increasingly floods Google search results and social media. Worst of all, the same unverified information is sometimes publicly repeated by politicians and journalists who don’t bother to verify it before it reaches a microphone, a camera, or social media.
Fact-checking organizations in Poland verify hundreds of public statements every year — and about half of them turn out to be false or manipulative. This shows that even public figures we trust don’t always tell the verified truth.
Our goal is to raise public awareness and spread the skills of effectively searching for and verifying information. We can’t believe everything we see online — but we can learn to check it.
That’s how the “How to Search?” guide came about
It’s the first of several projects of ours — a practical guide that teaches you, step by step, how to search smartly and verify information online and in conversations with artificial intelligence.
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We develop the “How to Search?” project as a community effort — the more people support us, the more educational materials we can create.
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