Does the internet really prove any story, or does it promote conspiracies and denounce the truth? In the article “How the Internet Is Loosening Our Grip on the Truth” by Farhad Manjoo, he talks about modern day media and how it affects our view on the truth of current events. Farhad Manjoo effectively explains in this article how bad it is that people no longer have rational reasoning and how video proof doesn’t prevail. Manjoo describes in this article how currently, people all around the world have media to choose from, which ultimately makes rational people become not so rational. Manjoo speaks of the internet as the birthplace of conspiracy theories and false information. In his article he says that it is easy to steer away from news and stories a person doesn’t like or isn't interested in. Through all the information out there, Manjoo makes it clear that the value of truth is lost in the vastness of knowledge and all that matters is if that information fits a person’s prerogative. In summary, the world has given the people information to choose from and the world has truly lost the grip on the truth, even evidence doesn’t support the information given. When presented with vast amount of diverse information, psychologists discovered that people don’t act rational to new distorted knowledge. Manjoo says, “Psychologists and other social scientists have repeatedly shown that when confronted with diverse information choices, people rarely act like rational, civic-minded automatons” (Manjoo par. 8). Is this good or bad? Studies show people like the choice of media, but is the freedom to choose good for them? False news covers the media, it makes fact checking a waste of time to sift through a void of conspiracies and fake news. On the Internet, there are even people who publish sites to only blog false stories for the public to consume. What does this mean for the future generations, how will they tell between what is real or fake? Only time will tell. Anyone can find proof or evidence of something online, but can this really support any claim? Even then, people tend to have different opinions on the same picture. Manjoo explains further about this topic through this example, “Surveys show that people who liked Mr. Trump saw the Access Hollywood tape where he casually referenced groping women as mere “locker room talk”; those who didn’t like him considered it the worst thing in the world” (qtd. in Manjoo par. 21). In this example Manjoo shows how a person’s own opinion can change their view or perspective on a topic. Farhad Manjoo is not alone when it comes to his view on the internet in his article “How the Internet Is Loosening Our Grip on the Truth”, most psychologists and noted scholars believe that it is indeed the birthplace of distorted truth, conspiracy theories, and all around false information for the public. Within this article, it talks about the effects of false information in the media and how that may change the future of our world, where humans are no longer rational and evidence doesn’t exactly prove a point.