The information we consume has a similarly networked structure: these structures too
have grown in complexity, as a landscape with a few purveyors of high-quality information
(publishers, news organizations, the academy) has become crowded with an array of
information sources of wildly varying perspectives, reliabilities, and motivating intentions.
Understanding any one piece of information in this environment depends on understanding
the way it is endorsed by and refers to other pieces of information within a large network of
links.