reading assignment 5, web hoaxes...

You always have to be careful whenever you are looking in the internet for the most reliable and most valuable resources. In most cases in college, whenever you are writing some sort of paper, you need to list references. Credibility is shown from articles or others related on the internet bythe foundation whom has created the credit or usually a copyright with a date. Many resources on the web has been proven to carry very false information about their accreditation. You have to be very careful in what you reference because anyone in the present can create anything and put it on the internet. This article describes different reasons of why counterfeit sites are created. Counterfeit sites pass their sites off as authentic and having accurate information. It also states that counterfeit sites are the most troublesome hoaxes on the World Wide Web. Counterfeit sites are made to look like legitimate sites, but in all actuality are full of false information. One of the main sites they use for example is martinlutherking.org which was proven to be completely false and totally biased. This article is very helpful in finding the sites worthy of doing research with. It points out particle things to pick out fo figure out if the site you are looking at is a reliable source. I truly believe that this problem will be ever growing till there are a couple limititations placed upon the net by maybe government officials.