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Examples of Lowest Quality Pages
Webpage/Content
Lowest Quality Characteristics
PQ Rating and Explanation
Lowest: Superiority of Specified Group 1 This is the homepage of Stormfront, a white supremacist website. The site is known for propagating white nationalism, antisemitism, Holocaust denial, white supremacy, and Islamophobia.
Harmful to Specified Groups ● Promotes, condones, or incites hatred against a Specified Group of people
Inciting hatred towards Specified Groups significantly harms members of those groups and society as whole. This page is on a YMYL topic. Reputation research and content on the site confirm that the Lowest rating is appropriate.
Harmful to Specified Groups, Harmfully Misleading Information ● Promotes, condones, or incites hatred against a Specified Group of people ● Contains unsubstantiated theories/claims not grounded in any reasonable facts or evidence
Lowest: Superiority of Specified Group 2 This page describes a non-scientifically backed theory of superiority of a Specified Group.
Unsubstantiated claims about a Specified Group significantly harms members of that group and society as a whole. This page is on a YMYL topic. The purpose of the page is to promote the view of superiority of a group of people. This page makes unsubstantiated claims about the role of melanin in the human body.
Lowest: Non-medical drug use advice This post encourages mixing an anti-anxiety drug with a recreational drug.
Harmful to Self or Other Individuals ● Encourages, depicts, incites, or directly causes physical, mental, emotional, or financial harm to self or others
Potentially harmful use of drugs could significantly impact a person’s health. This is a YMYL topic. This post and other content on the page encourages dangerous behavior that could cause harm.
Harmful to Self or Other Individuals, Harmfully Misleading Information ● Encourages, depicts, incites, or directly causes physical, mental, emotional, or financial harm to self or others ● Contains information that contradicts well-established expert consensus
Eating disorders and decisions to seek medical treatment significantly impact a person’s health. This is a YMYL topic. This post encourages harmful behavior. "Proana" or pro-anorexia is a movement to view anorexia as a lifestyle choice, not a disease. Proana and similar "thinspiration" pages contradict well-established expert consensus that anorexia is an eating disorder.
Lowest: Eating disorder encouragement This page has posts that encourage people to lose weight in unhealthy ways.
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