If you’d checked Bruce Springsteen’s Wikipedia page during the American Super bowl on Sunday night you would have been confronted with ‘This guy kinda sucks’.

Presumably moments before the page featured a full biography/discography etc, but with one mouse click and a few key strokes a malicious force (or let’s face it mischievous child), had changed an entry in the most popular point of reference on the internet.

Should we trust everything we read? Of course not, and especially not on the internet. I’d say it was fairly common knowledge how Wikipedia is built and maintained and yet for some reason it still seems to be almost universally trusted.

The internet provides the average person with access to more information than we can even imagine – but just like any source of information, no one authority should become so heavily relied upon.

If you have a burning desire to find out about Bruce try listening to some of his songs on last.fm, have a look at pictures of him in a google image search, see when he was last mentioned by AP: make up your own mind. It’s never been easier to gather information, and make up our own mind about the truth.