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How to search: Evaluating Sources

Check For:

  1. Relevant Content
  2. Not littered with advertisements and click-bait

  3. Signature/ footer with Current date

  4. Contact Us with working forms / email

  5. About Us info explaining their reason for existance (bias). 

  • You can tell a lot about publisher bias from lists of members, sponsors, or advertisers.
  • Follow the money! Ask yourself who benefit$ from the call-to-action.
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