Two or three decades ago, most people did not even hear about what the Internet is and what it is for. Today it contains thousands of news. Attackers broke into a safe at a central bank, an independent expert offers his services, hackers gained access to Microsoft headquarters and other stories - heartbreaking and not so. But is it worth believing this news and where does it even come from?

Where does information on the Internet come from?

1. MASS MEDIA. Any well-known news agency has its own website on the web. It employs professional journalists who find reliable sources of information and post it on their resources. Federal channels it is unprofitable to present false information.
2. Experience and knowledge of network users. Daily blogs and social networks updated with various new audio, video and text information. Users communicate with each other, share their experience and knowledge in various areas of life.
3. Fiction. People remain dreamers and inventors, so the Internet is replete with news that does not carry semantic load, but are only the fruit of someone's imagination.
4. Translations. On the same Internet, you can easily find an online translator. And many site owners use this service to quickly publish hot news. Unfortunately, such "crooked" translations mostly distort the original source.
5. Paraphrasers. Most texts on the Internet are written by copywriters and rewriters. If a specialist has a sufficient level of qualification, then the news is published quite reliable.

So whether to believe the news from the World Wide Web? You decide. If you need an independent examination of the car after an accident, then for additional information it is worth contacting a qualified lawyer, and if the purpose of visiting the Internet is to get answers to questions that, by and large, are not so important, then why not. After all, the information received can be checked at any time in authoritative sources.