Information overload, that's what the internet suffers from. There are a million different websites, each purporting a different view. Which one do we believe? In this era of crowdsourcing, when the neighborhood kid can be a youtube reporter, can we believe the stories that circulate on the net? The internet is abound with conspiracy theories and stories on scandals. Do we call it information or do we brand it as entertainment?
This section explores the issue of sensationalism on the internet, how mountains are made out of molehills and how user-generated content has totally changed the meaning of information credibility.

• Deceptive Advertising

Pop-up boxes springing up at almost each click, ranging from “You have won a million dollars” to “Click here to download free wallpapers”, being online sometimes can be quite an irritating experience. One would encounter thousands of such pop-up ads while surfing the net.
Read about how advertising on the internet could be highly deceptive and make you download stuff that should not be there in your computer.

• Critical Thinking

The Internet, as everyone knows, is notoriously unreliable. Yet, millions of users, young and old, depend upon information from the Internet for their daily needs. How do we separate the grain from the chaff, the true from the untrue? How do we know that a piece of information we come across on the Internet is credible or believable?
Learn how critical thinking could help you identify credible information on the internet.

• Wikipedia Wars - What to trust and what not to on Wikipedia

Daniel Radcliffe is a teenage porn star, Tony Blair had posters of Adolf Hitler on his bedroom wall when he was a teenager, and yeah, Robbie Williams “. . . makes his money by eating domestic pets in pubs in and around Stoke.”

Where would you find such hilarious statements? On Wikipedia, of course

• Fringe Opinions and Conspiracy Theories

It is relatively easy to produce a professional-looking website on the Internet (including pictures, movies, and other "evidence") that presents an unusual or far-fetched argument such as Creationism (as opposed to evolution) or that global warming does not exist.
The Internet, which spreads stories through "viral" propagation, increases the reach of such fringe opinions.

• Spyware

The computer slowing down tremendously, the risk of personal details being transmitted to hackers and fraudsters, zillions of unwanted ads popping up whenever one goes online, and the frustration that comes with it – well no one wants to get his computer infected with spyware.
Read about how you could be fooled into downloading software that can cause havoc with your machine.