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.^[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]

January 14, 2025, 5:38 PM