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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, you can 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. And 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 the 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. INTRO As you may remember from our first episode, we’ve teamed up with MediaWise, with support from Google to bring 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, history professors, and 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 look over articles before they’re published to ensure their content is accurate and up to date. They might call up a source, for example, to double check the spelling of their name. Once, there was a profile of me in the New Yorker, and the fact-checker asked me questions for OVER AN HOUR. And in the end, the piece contained no errors. Although, it did an illustration I found a tad unflattering. To be fair, the illustration also contained no errors. I just don’t think I like my face. Anyway, fact checkers also work for publications whose sole purpose is to verify claims made by public figures or on the internet, and explain why they are or are not true. Snopes and Politifact are some of the more well-known fact-checking sites. So, in the Stanford study, college students, history professors, and fact-checkers were all asked to look at two websites. One website belonged to the American Academy of Pediatrics[1], or the AAP, the main professional organization of pediatricians. The other site belonged to the American /College/ of Pediatricians, or the ACP. Now of course, they sound very similar, but the ACP is actually...