Information pollution

Information pollution (also referred to as info pollution) is the contamination of an information supply with irrelevant, redundant, unsolicited, hampering, and low-value information. 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.

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