Information Pollution
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Information pollution deliberately degrades information environments by flooding them with excessive, low-quality, or misleading content to overwhelm audiences’ and institutions’ capacity to identify reliable information, exploiting the asymmetry between content generation and verification capacity.
Information pollution deliberately degrades information environments by flooding them with excessive, low-quality, or misleading content to overwhelm audiences’ and institutions’ capacity to identify reliable information, exploiting the asymmetry between content generation and verification capacity.
FIMI Taxonomy by Information Epidemiology Lab.
Citation
BibTeX citation:
@article{li2026,
author = {Li, E. Rosalie},
title = {Information {Pollution}},
date = {2026-02-17},
url = {https://fimi.infoepi.org/mechanisms/information-pollution.html},
langid = {en}
}
For attribution, please cite this work as:
Li, E. Rosalie. 2026. “Information Pollution,” February. https://fimi.infoepi.org/mechanisms/information-pollution.html.