The Ad Fontes Media Bias chart helps you determine the reliability of your source. It rates sources on Bias as well as News Value and Reliability. If you cannot find your source here, you need to take other steps to ensure it's a reliable, trustworthy source. Click on the picture to go to the site.
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Navigate away from your information source in order to see what other sources say about the person or organization who is responsible for the information you are evaluating. Here’s how:
Using a search engine, type wikipedia after the domain name of a site, or after a person’s name, to show the wikipedia article at the top of your search results.
If you have doubts about the quality of claims on the webpage you are viewing, or want to find out whether a certain claim is true or false, use other news sources and fact-checking sites to verify information about the claim.
Use reliable fact-checking sites to verify claims:
Enter the claim you are trying to verify followed by the name of a fact-checking site to see any articles about the claim on the site at the top of your search results.
Enter the claim you are trying to verify in the Google search bar and click the News tab of your search results in order to confirm that other news sites are reporting the same story.
Confirm claims by searching them in large, nationally-known news sources. Free, full-text access to major daily newspapers is available to CCSF students, staff, and faculty through the U.S. Major Dailies database (use your RAM ID), such as:
Credits: Text adapted from The SIFT Method, Introduction to College Research, by Walter D. Butler, Aloha Sargent, and Kelsey Smith, under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The SIFT Method, or The Four Moves, is the creation of Mike Caulfield, Director of Blended and Neworked Learning at Washington State University of Vancouver and author of Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers, a free online book about evaluating information online.