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Ask a librarian or fact checking site? I don’t consider either of them to be “experts” on misinformation, especially supposed “fact checking sites”.

And a librarian’s mandate is about managing sources, not being an expert in the data itself.

Otherwise good stuff.

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But why even try? If the news support my biases, I’m sticking with it.

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Lemmy 101

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So a “cool guide” is random text with some icons strewn in?

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Addition!

If its financed by a less than democratic government or has ties to them the source is invalid.

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That’s covered under “Consider the source.”

The source having ties to a non-democratic government does not automatically invalidate the source, but it should make you scrutinize it more sceptically in relation to the other criteria.

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It does invalidate the source. And its not exactly covered

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  1. In what way is it not covered, according to you?

  2. If the news story is, e.g., non-political, does not try to influence your opinion on something, and is based on first-party facts that can be independently verified and that are correctly represented, the source does not matter for the factuality of the news story, even if it is from a non-democratic source.

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What are the good fact checking sites?

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