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How to search: Evaluating Sources

Check For:

Relevant Content. Look for multiple sources and ranges of data.

Authoritative: Source that has hands-on first-person experience, and has a reputation to risk.

  • Not clickbait: Not littered with advertisements and glurge.
  • Check for reviews of source to check for red flags like "Hoax", "Scam", "Predatory",  "Retraction"

Current date 

Contact Us with working forms / email

About Us info explaining their reason for existence (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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