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Information pollution (also referred to as info pollution) is the contamination of an information supply with irrelevant, redundant, unsolicited, hampering, and low-value information.[1][2] Examples include misinformation, junk e-mail, and media violence.
The spread of useless and undesirable information can have a detrimental effect on human activities. It is considered to be an adverse effect of the information revolution.[3]
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- ^ Kai-Yuan Cai; Chao-Yang Zhang (1996). "Towards a research on information pollution". 1996 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics. Information Intelligence and Systems (Cat. No.96CH35929). Vol. 4. p. 3124. doi:10.1109/ICSMC.1996.561484. ISBN 0-7803-3280-6. S2CID 61082655.