Information from the web is hardly ever subject to intense scrutiny by the majority of its users whose assumptions are seemingly that information is information is information. I think it is often the case that, as information-gathering is the first step to completing tasks involving many other more time-consuming steps, issues pertaining to the quality of that information, if not immediately reconciliable, are simply left aside in order to proceed with the project at hand. Hence information is swallowed in this sense, rather than chewed on and mulled over.

For instance, with respect to information—how does one ascertain its reliability?