Is the Internet a trustworthy source of information? Is it as reliable as print?

Is the Internet a trustworthy source of information? 

Yes and No

The internet is a huge frontier of information with at least 1 million terabytes of data. For those who don't know how big that is, it is huge. With that much data roaming around the world just on the internet, there are not enough services to maintain them ALL and keep them trustworthy. So to answer the question, yes it can be trustworthy where there are services to maintain the data and no where there are no services. An example of a trustworthy information would be in educational data bases such as ebsco or google scholar. These are just two of the many different services that hold and maintain trustworthy data. Some of you may wonder, in elementary school we used wikipedia a lot for information towards a project. Well, in elementary school, there is not enough funds to get access to the high end data bases and the information is also far too complex for children. Wikipedia is a website where people input their information on a topic and the program chooses the most common answer and displays it. This is also how google works. When you search something up, it brings up the most common websites and information. This may or may not be true, but it is the most common. 

Is it as reliable as print?

Personally I think that the internet is not as reliable as print. This is because all prints usually have to go though multiple revisements and editing processes before being published, whereas the posts on the internet as just done then and there, not a lot of revising. Even with all the services available to make information trustoworthy on the internet it is hard to see the internet as a whole to be more reliable because the services can only maintain a few hundred thousand terabytes of data and the internet is at least, minimum, 1 million terabytes large. 

Over all I believe that it is up to how the user uses the internet, if you know how to use it and where to look for information, you can say that the internet is trustworthy and more reliable than print but vice versa if you are a lazy user, it can be untrustworthy and less reliable than print.