In an era of endless content quite literally at our fingertips, how do we discern what's not knowledge? To quote Bo Burnham's song, Welcome to the Internet , the internet is "a little bit of everything all of the time." There are millions of exchanges happening online at any given time and we cannot possibly fact-check or ensure that everything available isn't misleading or malicious. To cut to the chase, what really is knowledge? How does something get labeled as knowledge? F or me, I would consider knowledge to be anything that gives a person insight on a certain issue that is occurring that can be proved in a tangible way. While this seems very textbook-sounding, I believe that considering information with no ill-intent as knowledge can lead to many loopholes or is too vague a statement to properly distinguish between knowledge and information. Knowledge, for me, can also be statements that provide positive and meaningful contributions to any exchange being do...
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