What is the easiest way to determine a sources credibility?
Look at the authors biography and the date
Based on the domain, do you think this website would be credible or not? Why? www.findingthefacts.com
It may not be credible because it is a .com site which could mean someone altered the information.
Is this Website Credible? ETF News (EndingTheFed.com)
NOT CREDIBLE: ETF is one of the more notorious fake-news sites, and often republished content word for word from other right-wing sites.
*Be careful with major political debates about popular figures
What three things should ALWAYS be sited when writing a card?
Authors last name, date, link to the website
Which of the following is the LEAST reliable source for nutritional information?
A) ABC News
B) The National Report
C) Harvard Medicine
D) Pew Research Center
B) The National Report
How many cards with information that says similar things from different websites should you have? Why?
2-3
1. so your argument has more than one leg to stand on
2. to ensure that your information is credible
3. to get the right wording for the info you want to include
How many years old should a website talking about relevant and changing information be?
NOT CREDIBLE: The site is trying to look like ABC News with the logo “ABC” in a black circle. But the URL is wrong, the real ABC is abc.go.com, whereas this is abc.com.co (the .co is a country code for Colombia, whose domains are easy to register)
*Websites and popular news sources are easy to replicate