Finding Credible Sources in These Wild Times We're Living In
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| C'mon, you know you'd click. |
*Sigh* where do I even begin? My lecture on credible sources
used to be so succinct and cute. I had a little acronym (courtesy of some awesome
librarians) that helped explain how to tell in an online source was credible.
CRAP. Currency, Relevance/Reliability, Authority/Audience, Purpose/Point of
View. (link for those who want to know more). Sure, the acronym really should’ve
been CRRAAPP, but it was a simpler time.
It can be easy to roll our eyes as our Aunt Kimothy shares yet
another clickbait article about scientists secretly plotting to a coup so that
killer whales can finally take their rightful place as our overlords.
But there
are real, important issues at play here. Fake news, biased articles, and flat-out
propaganda are harder and harder to distinguish from good, fact-based
journalism. Part of this is because of how the internet has evolved. Very few
people get their news from print anymore, so the internet is the place to go.
But the internet doesn’t have to go through fact-checkers, editors, etc.
(although many sites certainly do have stringent editing mechanisms in place).
Also, there is a huge financial incentive for content creators to write
clickbait articles. Some are accurate with clickbait titles like “You’ll Never
Believe What This Ghost Said to Tom Cruise” but some are purposefully inaccurate
in an attempt to get people like Aunt Kimothy to hit the “share” button and spread
that puppy around, generating advertising revenue with each sucker who clicks.
The people behind these types of articles like these Macedonian teens who are
in the game to pay for their guitar equipment or this liberal dude who built a
fake news empire with fake pro-Trump/anti-Hillary content.
We
know that fake news (as in journalism based in falsehoods, not
journalism a certain someone disagrees with) and extreme bias is
everywhere. How do
we sniff out that putrid, stinking rat? (What a gross expression. My
bad!)
Here are four types of sites/articles to keep an eye out for
(courtesy of Dr. Melissa Zimdars):
- “Fake, false, regularly misleading sites” which rely on “outrage” using distorted headlines and decontextualized or dubious information in order to generate likes, shares, and profits” (examples: Politicalo, AmericanNews.com)
- Websites that may circulate misleading and/or potentially unreliable information (examples: ConsciousLifeNews.com, CountdownToZeroTime.com)
- These websites sometimes use clickbait-y headlines and social media descriptions (examples: BipartisanReport.com, TheFreeThoughtProject.com
- Purposefully fake satire/comedy sites that can offer critical commentary on politics and society, but have the potential to be shared as actual/literal news (examples: Christwire.org, TheOnion.com)
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| Give them their Pulitzer! |
Here are some tips
for routing out bad info (also courtesy of Dr. Melissa Zimdars):
- Avoid websites that end in “lo” ex: Newslo (above). These sites specialize in taking a piece of accurate information and then packaging that information with other false or misleading “facts.”
- Watch out for websites that end in “.com.co” as they are often fake versions of real news sources.
- Watch out if known/reputable news sites are not also reporting on the story. Sometimes lack of coverage is the result of corporate media bias and other factors, but there should typically be more than one source reporting on a topic or event.
- Odd domain names generally equal odd and rarely truthful news.
- Lack of author attribution may, but not always, signify that the news story is suspect and requires verification.
- Check the “About Us” tab on websites or look up the website on Snopes or Wikipedia for more information about the source.
- If the story makes you REALLY ANGRY it’s probably a good idea to keep reading about the topic via other sources to make sure the story you read wasn’t purposefully trying to make you angry (with potentially misleading or false information) in order to generate shares and ad revenue.
- It’s always best to read multiple sources of information to get a variety of viewpoints and media frames. Some sources not specifically included in this list (although their practices at times may qualify them for addition), such as The Daily Kos and Fox News, vacillate between providing legitimate, problematic, and/or hyperbolic news coverage, requiring readers and viewers to verify and contextualize information with other sources
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| Uh oh, she needs step #7! |
So here’s your assignment for this post—copy and paste the
link a non-credible news article. Do NOT choose an Onion or Clickhole article (too obviously satire at this point). Your pick can be as blatant or as camouflaged as you’d
like. Along with the link, I’d like you to provide a paragraph response
explaining how you could tell this source wasn’t legitimate. What about it made
you question its veracity? When you’ve done this, also respond to one other
classmate’s post, adding your take on the linked article they provided. Did you
think it was not credible? Were you fooled?
https://babylonbee.com/news/nations-atheists-standing-strong-despite-existence-of-bacon
ReplyDeleteThis article was obviously satirical and therefore not credible. Outrageous claims were made and the article was written to make fun of the population. While the article does provide insightful information about the ignorance of certain religious groups, the claim that bacon or fish tacos are proof of God exists is wildly absurd and mildly amusing. However, for other articles, a passive viewer may not realize some of the other articles are satire as the website looks a legitimate as other, less reputable news sights such as Buzzfeed. Readers would have to scroll all the way to the bottom to read that the site is for Christian News Satire.
morgan.1464
I agree with you that this article is not credible. The logic in the whole article is not coherent, because it does not state clear about the relationship between the existence of bacon and the existence of god. And, there are a lot of advertisements in this article, so it may be a article to attract audiences to click and share.
DeleteYukun Zheng(Zheng.1608)
While clearly satirical, this article isn't credible in any way and it doesn't make a lot of sense logically, but that won't stop a lot of people from believing in it. It's missing an author and it fails to reference anything that may back up its claim. However, like you pointed out, stating that all the articles on this site are satire on the bottom of the website might get missed by some people.
DeleteI agree with you that this article is not credible. The author did not use logic way to convince people and the evidence is not credible. The claim he made is not based on fact and it is obviously satire.
DeleteI totally agree with you and this article is absurdly incredible. Also, the article is extremely subjective and satire which contains insufficient evidence and logic to prove and support the claims inside the article.
DeleteYes I agree that this article is not reliable. It is very short therefore it lacks efficient support and there is no author to link the writing to. The article is comical, but not informative.
Delete- Sara Kodish
I agree with you. I could easily find that this site is incredible. Statements made in the article lack of evidence and logic is weird and inconceivable.
DeleteI completely agree with you that this website is not credible at all due to the fact that a lot of the things said in the article didn't make sense and the overall flow was off. As I read through it more and more, I become more confused due to the lack of evidence and reasoning behind the points.
DeleteI agree that this article is not credible. The information is non-logic, and the article did not provide any useful information. This article might just bring people a laugh but not provide any usefulness.
DeleteI agree with you that this resource is not credible. Because the information in the article are useless and nonsense. And the resources can't provide a lot resources to the essay
DeleteFeifan Wang
Just by looking at the URL you can tell that the article is fake. Being religious or non-religious has nothing to do with the existence of bacon.
Delete- Parker Spielvogel
https://consciouslifenews.com/8-year-boy-dies-border-patrol-custody-christmas-day/11164111/
ReplyDeleteThis article was trying to use clickbait-y headlines with the words such as: "‘This Must End. Now.’","8-Year-Old Boy ," and "on Christmas Day" in its title. Although this article talks about the fact that a child died in US Border Patrol Custody, the vocabularies and the structure it used is try to make audiences to fell pity about the boy and angry about U.S. government. After reading this article , it is hard for audiences to accept the other opinions about this topic. Moreover, this website is full of advertisements. The credible news website should not have so much advertisement, as they have enough funding and care about their audiences's experiment while they are reading.
Yukun Zheng(Zheng.1608)
I agree that this article is fake news. The article uses emotional phrases and words to make people click on the article that are sensitive to the issue. The website the article appears on also raises some concern. The website it littered with weird advertisements and links to twitter posts and there is little information about the author of the article and the website itself.
DeleteI totally agree with your opinion. With the sensitive words like ''boy's body" and "must", normally reader would spread their anger on the comment section or even share this article on their social pages. With no official words of the death reason, the writer trying to use this event to point to one of the political department, which is a common way used by political parties.
Deletehttps://worldtruth.tv/italian-doctor-shocked-the-world-cancer-is-a-fungus-that-can-be-treated-with-baking-soda/
ReplyDeleteThe website I got this from is known for having really click-bait articles. It's easy to tell that the article I chose is not credible because it has no author or a date that states when it was published. Also, there are no references used at all to back up the claim that cancer is a fungus. Only one website is listed in the whole article, but even that isn't reliable as a source. This article is biased and focuses on one point of view. Lastly, going to the website's About Us page states that the goal is to show readers "the truth" by posting alternative news.
I believe this is the fake news, because the article is all about the how the therapy works and which kind of people need to use it. However, I actually can not find the solid back up material in the article including how effective the therapy is.
Deletehttps://www.8satire.com/dinosaurs-got-extinct-liked-pineapple-pizza-new-study-claims/
ReplyDeleteThis article is obviously fake because it is outright ridiculous. No one truly knows how the dinosaurs went extinct, there is a leading theory a meteor wiped them out, but every scientist researching the topic will agree it was not because of pineapple on pizza. Dinosaurs did not eat pizza and if they did adding pineapple on their pizza would not cause them to go extinct. Also, pineapple on pizza is delicious.
I agree that this article is fake. Obviously the image on the front cover is edited with pizza trying to make it realistic. I was not fooled by the article because pizza did not exist when the dinosaurs were alive. This source could easily be fact checked from other scientific reports on dinosaur extinction.
DeleteIt is factually delicious, and I'm glad you understand that.
DeleteI think this article is fake. This theory about dinosaurs extinction is a fallacy. It move from one subject to another without rhyme and reason. This is ridiculous. However, the story about this article is really interesting. This article is really delicious. : )
DeleteLihuang Zhuang
https://www.buzzfeed.com/lyapalater/elsa-is-definitely-a-lesbian-in-frozen-2-and-that
ReplyDeleteThis article is 100% not credible. These claims are made from a movie teaser trailer, without any words or sign of plot. This is when one knows that these claims and theories are all wrong of a source. Even though the writer shows pictures to prove their point but the accusations made are completely wrong and pointless. Readers will immediately know that the information is false and won't buy into it. Some who relate to the movie will understand the information a little more than those who haven't seen the first movie but either way the information is not credible and anyone reading it will immediately know that this source is wrong.
-Vidhi Daga
I agree with you. After going through the website, it's clearly an opinion/satire writer but it doesn't say that any where on the page.
Deletehttps://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio-state-football/2017/03/81238/report-ohio-state-partners-with-columbus-based-safelite-to-rename-ohio-stadium
ReplyDeleteThis article is from an Ohio State Football news outlet. It claims that Ohio Stadium is going to change its name to Safelite Stadium. The article attempt to make it realistic by recognizing a fake source that made the claim. Additionally, it grabs the readers attention by say REPORT in all caps. The end of the article say that is fake because it was written on April Fools day. If someone did not read to the end of the article they may have assumed that it was true.
As soon as I realized the article was dated as April 1st, it looked pretty much like it was going to turn out to be nothing more than a fake news article for April Fools. So yeah, completely agree that this article is fake, nothing much else to it.
Deletehttps://worldtruth.tv/us-government-made-a-pact-with-aliens-for-other-worldly-technology/?utm_source=engageim
ReplyDeleteThis article I was able to immediately identify as total clickbait. There's not a source nor author found within the article and just the topic alone is enough to make one realize this as merely a conspiracy theory article and nothing more. The information and video used in this article have no sources nor are they credible whatsoever. Honestly, I found it quite sad that apparently 9K people have shared this article without any form of proper sourcing throughout the article.
I completely agree with you! You can tell just by the title. They made the statement seem like a fact, which has no proof whatsoever. I cannot believe that 9K people have shared this article. Also, the YouTube video that is linked has over one million views. It is just crazy!
DeleteMiqaela Weller.133 for above comment!
DeleteI can totally tell that this source is not credible just by the title of it. This "article" is just a bunch of text that has no author and no sources supporting the information. It is easy to see that this is just someone ranting about a conspiracy that they have. The evidence that this person uses is also not credible, making this one whole in-credible mess. It really is sad that so many people shared and interacted with this article.
Delete-Emma Lorenzo.26
The title alone is enough to cause concern, but when you continue to read on, not only are there no credible sources sited, the video included appears to be several decades old and therefor not very relevant. And where it notes the author, it does not appear he has any formal or organizational ties, he simply posts these articles on his website, and does not offer any valuable sources to corroborate his article.
Deletehttps://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/07/18/earthquake-hazard-maps-usgs/12793009/
ReplyDeleteThis article is from USA Today. The writer compared two earthquake maps from 2008 and 2016 and then made the conclusion that the eastern coast of American is going to have more earthquake in the future. However, base on the basic geological knowledge, there is no collision boundary near eastern coast of American which leads to the low chance of earthquake in that area. Furthermore, the original resource also did not mentioned it.
I agree with you about this site not being credible because it was last modified in 2014, which it is 2019. Therefore there is definitely new information out there about the U.S getting a risk for earthquakes. Also, there is an ad that automatically pops up and then you see a bunch of click-bait ads. Then when I first saw this I was not fooled at all because of how many ads this website had and when I saw what the topic was about.
DeleteI thought this was quite an interesting article because from a certain point of view it could totally be seen as believable. The author says in the title that Eastern US has a greater risk for earthquakes when this is a very vague title. If it wanted to be more truthful, it'd have to say something along the lines of at greater risk than before.
Deletehttps://www.naturalnews.com/2018-12-02-neil-degrasse-tyson-bill-cosby-science-drugged-raped-astronomy-student-reports.html
ReplyDeleteA lot of titles on this website use click bait and are sometimes completely misleading. In this article’s title, it claims that Neil Degrasse Tyson is the Bill Cosby of science. In recent times, nearly all news and media outlets have been covering the trial of Bill Cosby and his rape victims. To use that attention and popularity to their advantage, this website included both of their names to generate likes, clicks, shares, etc. Instead of just stating the allegations towards Tyson, like many credible websites did, the editor linked it to a story that was hugely popular at the time. In fact, Bill Cosby’s name is tagged before Tyson’s further indicating that they just wanted the views! Looking through the rest of site, and many other titles, it appears that most of the titles are misleading on this news site. There are also many, many ads on this website. In summary, I believe this site is not credible.
Miqaela Weller.133
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ReplyDeletehttps://nypost.com/2019/01/17/xbox-players-are-better-at-gaming-than-ps4-and-pc-owners-survey/
ReplyDeleteThis article is not credible because they're wanting people to get into a heated debate about who is better at video games. The article only took a survey on a select number of people and it does not state which console those people preferred to play on. Also, they even state at the end of the article that their data might be “shaky”, which gives you a red flag that this information is not reliable. Then there are multiple ads you can click on and if you in the web page long enough it will pop up an ad on your screen to either force you to click on it or close it.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.yahoo.com/news/looks-land-rover-discovery-svx-190200895.html
The title of this news article is an obvious clickbait which directly point out one of the Land Rover series is dying. However, the content in the article doesn't provide any data shows how bad the sales are or any source from Land Rover saying will cut this series. Often this type of article will attract both Land Rover's lovers and haters to argue why this is a good series or not.
Henry Huang
I totally agree with your idea that the title of the article seems just want to attract people's attention. And also the content is full of personal ideas and unreliable comparison. The lack of the data cannot confirm people about the death of the Land Rover.
Delete--Duoyuan Wang
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/11/robots-jobs-employees-artificial-intelligence
ReplyDeleteThis article is talk about the robots will destroy our jobs. This is a non-credible article, because author used too much critical idea and emotion. Also, this article only show the future envisioned by the author. The development of technology would not change us directly. The change would come out slowly. People also adjust the relationship between human and robot gradually. Therefore, the effect of robots is not going to be what the author describes directly. In addition, the effect of robots does not only reflect in our jobs, but also reflect in other ways. These should have to be considered and analyzed.
Lihuang Zhang
https://lochnessmystery.blogspot.com/2019/01/ricky-phillips-replies.html
ReplyDeleteIn this article, the author claims that Loch Ness monster is real based on the photo he takes, however, the way he claims the photo is real is not convincing. He states that the photo is real because he do not own Photoshop. Also, he states a lot things that can not be used as evidence and unrelated to the justification of the Loch Ness monster. Therefore, I believe this article is not credible.
https://www.disclose.tv/china-to-build-giant-space-based-solar-array-renewable-energy-source-or-directed-energy-weapon-361286
ReplyDeleteThis article is absurdly incredible. The author writes the article subjectively and uses ridiculous logic to prove the claim-"China is sinister". So, we can obviously find that this article is satire based on the main claim the author makes. Moreover, there are little evidence inside the article that can support and prove the main claim except a lot of subjective judgements and biases.
So the source that I chose as non-credible was a clip from FOX News. In this video, a group of hosts and a police officer go on a ridiculous rant filled to the brim with incorrect facts. The conversation is about marijuana use, where one of the anchors claims "it's killing people everyday." This was the headline of the article where I found the video, which made me want to click on it and made me realize that this is not a credible source. This statement is in fact false and can be backed up with evidence. People may be dying from marijuana related instances, such as dying in prison over misdemeanor drug charges, but there is no physical way for a human to overdose on marijuana and die. In addition, these news anchors who have no credibility on the topic continue to make claims that marijuana is addictive and a gateway drug. They use no evidence for these claims and they are in fact false when the evidence is researched. One man on the show says "you don't go right to using cocaine, you probably used marijuana first." First, they have no idea what people do- you cannot make that assumption. In addition, phrasing it this way makes it seem like all people who smoke marijuana will eventually use cocaine. This is NOT true and can be clearly seen as the legalization of marijuana is becoming more prominent in the Unite States. This news clip is completely not credible and I cannot believe it aired on national television.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.davidicke.com/article/509274/killing-people-everyday-fox-pushes-insane-anti-weed-propaganda-ridiculous-90-second-clip (this is the link to where i found the video- the article about the video is not the source i am talking about in this response).
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2019/02/06/food-additives-health-risks.aspx
ReplyDeleteI knew this article was not reliable for various reasons. First of all, the title of the article is not professional even though it is claimed to be written by a doctor. Also, the website has various popup ads trying to sell products related to the articles health claims. I researched the author and it is said that he is known for making many false health claims. The main give away that this was an unreliable source was the fact that the title did not take a hard stance as well as it was written with informal language and that the website was flooded with pop-up ads.
- Sara Kodish
I agree with you, the website is trying to sale their product, which make the news less creditable. These sites often mix facts and biased information together to convince the reader the article is true.
Delete- Yang Jiang
I agree that this article is from a non-credible source. From my experience, most times, when pop up ads consistently show up on a website, it generally means that the source is not very credible. Many times, these websites exist just to try and get people to click on their products and buy them.
Deletehttps://channel23news.com/2017/09/former-one-direction-member-harry-styles-aged-23-found-dead/
ReplyDeleteThis article is quite obviously fake. Harry styles, a singer/songwriter who is 25 and still very much alive, performed just last year in July at the age of 24. A huge clue is the giant “create prank” button on the top left of the article. Other than, however, the entire page looks quite legitimate. The article itself is quite professional even referencing police and coroner services. The website URL also has nothing much to be suspicious of. All-in-all, without looking at other credible services and if one completely misses the giant prank labels, it would be easy to believe that Harry Styles has died.
I agree with you that this article is not credible. At first, I also think it may be true, but after reading your comment, I understand why it is fake news.
DeleteThis website seems o be created in order to fool people based on headlines. In the end there are misspellings, but other than that, the article seems to be valid. It is a classic celebrity overdose story which is not inherently unbelievable.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.technologyreview.com/s/612960/an-ai-tool-auto-generates-fake-news-bogus-tweets-and-plenty-of-gibberish/
ReplyDeleteI want to share something interesting with your guys. This article is not fake, but contain a piece of fake news generated by AI. The generated news is fake because it's not realistic, but the body of the news is "real" enough to confuse someone. This fake news AI can generate any fake news as long as a title is provided, which means, by feeding a reasonable title to the algorithm, it actually has the ability to generate reasonable fake news that difficult to tell if it is fake. So, people might need to fight against AI a few years later when taking this class...
Yanzhe Jiang
ReplyDeletejiang.1647
https://medium.com/omgfacts/shoe-trees-are-popping-up-all-around-the-world-327399a793d4
This article with an attracting titles that Shoe trees are popping up all around the world is attractive but misleading. Most of his information comes from others' dictation and pictures posted on social media. That is not reliable at all. The most interesting things is that in the article it said 'If you read other languages besides English, you’ll find evidence of shoe trees in China, Russia, the Middle East and virtually every other corner of this vast planet.' I do use Chinese but i have never herd that shoe trees in China and when i search for shoe tree in Chinese website, there are no such shoe trees within China.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/palestinians-texas-mexico/
ReplyDeleteThe original article has been deleted since, but it was originally posted on The Beaverton. This article was obviously fake but was then picked up by Reuters which caused it to grow a bit more than it should have. The idea behind the initial article was how since President Trump claimed Jerusalem as a part of Israel that the Palestinians claimed that Texas was now a part of Mexico. This was obviously a joke, but still managed to make it to news and makes a point as to how the President's claims shouldn't really mean too much to Palestinians.
-Brad Knez
https://dcgazette.com/2019/interview-man-who-faced-down-gun-wielding-liberal-over-maga-hats-recounts-his-story/
ReplyDeleteIt can be seen clearly that the website in non-credible just by the fact that there are a lot of ad overlays on the website. Also, the title of the article looks too unbelievable to be true, and as a reader, it actually caught my attention due to its click-baity title.
I totally agree with you that this title is just a fishing game
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ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/Acosta/status/941297100821860352
ReplyDeleteJim Acosta retweeted data from VOX News saying that since Sandy Hook, there is more than 1552 mass shooting. This tweet/VOX News data here is saying that since Sandy Hook, there has been an average of 310 mass shootings in the past 5 years. The FBI definition of mass shooting is as four fatalities or more in one incident. Under this FBI term, mass shooting seems not to be increasing. This data is clearly being manipulated for an agenda. This data provided by VOX is using a broad definition of mass shooting and this data complied by VOX News is broad and encompasses gang, drug related, and domestic related shootings which are not usually considered mass shooting in layman's term. This data counts ALL shootings that 4 or more people have died (Gang related, drugs related, and domestic related shootings). You don't hear about some hoodlums on TV that committed mass gang shootings or a drug deal going wrong where 4 people died and calling that a mass shooting. When you hear mass shootings, you tend to think about school or large public events. This tweet by Jim Acosta and data by VOX News is used as a fear tactic to make you think that more children are dying/more public places are being shot at. This is definition is fake news. The data is not represented accurately.
https://consciouslifenews.com/slashing-sugar-makes-kids-healthier-just-10-days/11118677/
ReplyDeleteThe website and article I found is obviously a fake. The article said that cutting added sugar from a child's diet can make child healthier very quickly. Just like most of the fake news, the article begins with the words: 'The study observes that...' which makes people believe its contents are based on the scientific researches. What is more, it is common sense that our health is based on many important parts, not only one thing. However, the words in the article are very strong and it is strong enough to misleading some parents who do not know how to raise their kids properly. Also, this article is retweeted from YaHoo which is a public website full of liars. The last point I think this is a fake news is that the related links on the website are all commercial and entertainment. Obviously the purpose of the website is not to tell us something.
--Duoyuan Wang
I agree with you on the statement that this article is fake. The main reason I believe it is false news is the fact that its source is Yahoo News. Additionally, the article was very short in length and in between sentences, other related articles were being displayed with the same topic. I thought that was weird that there were so many other articles with almost the same title throughout this website.
Deletetps://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zahrahirji/climate-change-middle-america
ReplyDeleteThis article I found may have not been entirely fake news, but there are multiple components throughout the reading that don't quite make sense. For example, the writer was making a point that climate change is not only affecting the coasts, but the middle states too. It states that the midwest is receiving more amounts of rain than on average, describing the effects flooding takes out on farmers and crops. But then, the author goes on to say that global warming is drying out the good soil of the middle states, completely reversing what was just said before. The last thing I noticed that led me to question this article is the fact that without relating this topic to politics at all throughout the entire article, the author made a judgement in the last sentence. It was a nudge that the middle states that will encounter these effects of climate change voted for President Trump out of majority.
https://worldtruth.tv/undeniable-proof-emerges-that-jp-morgan-sunk-the-titanic-to-form-federal-reserve/?fbclid=IwAR2_h8lRuL9qgwXo4lb4yBkxtz-me_iZVm8nViIM9u0r5EpvJLmhx0Ux9Tg
ReplyDeleteThe website article is clearly non-credible, as you can tell just from the title of the article. The article is clearly clickbait. There is no author or credible sources anywhere in the article, as it acts more as a conspiracy theory based on nothing more than a rumor that JP Morgan supposedly had a ticket for the ship's voyage, but at the last minute, backed out. The article gives a list of "facts", however, these "facts" aren't confirmed anywhere else.
-Indira Guha
Once I opened the article, as soon as I saw the title of the article, I knew immediately that the article was fake. There is no way that OSU would ever give up the school colors without the entire student body hearing about it.
ReplyDelete-Indira Guha
https://babylonbee.com/news/man-who-has-never-shared-jesus-with-anyone-criticizes-slain-missionarys-lack-of-wisdom
ReplyDeleteThis article is clearly nonsense and non-credible. Believer Michael Frederick's perspectives seems overly shallow. The article does provide the information about things happened. But the title and the article's information seems not really explain the why it is "lack of wisdom". The article only states Michael Frederick's perspectives, which is not credible at all.
http://now8news.com/mexico-agrees-to-pay-for-the-wall-only-if-the-us-returning-texas-to-mexico/
ReplyDeleteOne can tell this article is obviously not reliable or credible the first time they look at it. Just looking at the title allows the reader to see that this article is nonsense. The title says that in exchange for Mexico paying for the border wall, the United States will give them back the state of Texas. This is clearly never going to happen which allows the reader to see that this title just wants to catch peoples attention rather than actually being factual. One can also infer that this site is non-credible because of the amount of ads that are around the article. There are ads everywhere on the website which leads one to believe that this website is for fake news, because a real news website would not need to have nearly as many advertisements on its webpage.
-Nicholas Durstock
http://bigamericannews.com/2015/05/03/barack-obama-is-to-blame-for-inflaming-racial-tensions-as-first-black-president/
ReplyDeleteKinda like the Onion, this news source clearly makes satire articles. This one being one of the most obvious one. The website is filled with ads and other junk that distract the reader from the actual article itself. The first two sentences themselves should give the authenticity away. At the bottom a Facebook conversation page at the bottom also gives it away being each comment is just a scam bot.
Oh forgot my name, Victor Caraballo III
DeleteHonestly feel the same, its obviously a joke because I feel as if the students would hear about it before any news articles even had the chance to write about it.
ReplyDelete-Victor Caraballo
https://ftw.usatoday.com/2019/02/lakers-carmelo-anthony-anthony-davis
ReplyDeleteIt is obvious that this resource is a fake news. Because it is impossible for the lakers to want Carmelo Anthony. Additionally, this article is the suspicion of the writer. There are no reliable resources in this article. Nothing can prove that the Lakers want to trade Anthony Davis and get Carmelo Anthony, it a rumor.
Feifan Wang
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/tips-from-a-guy-who-managed-to-live-in-manhattan-on-a-40000-salary-and-still-max-out-his-401k-contributions-2018-11-12
ReplyDeleteThis is obviously a fake and unreliable news. The title of the article is not official and sounds like a joke. Also the website is full of ads and other junk which is a big distraction for readers. The source of this article is not specifically provided so it is not convincing. The information of the author is also too brief (just a name) to be reliable.
I totally agree with you that the serious purposes should be checked before using it for research. The title and the picture shown on the top of the webpage is like a joke and the resource of the content is nonsense. Someone made up a story.
ReplyDeletehttp://archive.is/gRBBq
ReplyDeleteThis source reported that woman in Centerville, OH cannibalized her wheelchair bound husband. From a glance it was very easy to tell that it was fake. The first, and most noticeable, detail is that no officials in the article are named. Officers, medical officials, and investigators are not named but simply referred to by their titles. Second, the period when referring to the woman (Mrs. Houston) is missing in every instance they refer to her. Lastly, the footer at the bottom of the page says that the site is a faux new/ satire site. Unfortunately when reading the Snope's article about this story, it was also shared to other sites posing as real ones.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/woman-charged-eating-husband-alive/
- Parker Spielvogel
Deletehttps://worldtruth.tv/harvard-scientists-urge-you-to-stop-drinking-milk/
ReplyDeleteThis article is fake and not credible. The article has no author nor date and also the website is filled with advertisement and other garbage information. It also shows that this article had been shared by 48K people, however I don't believe it, because the content is short and it is inconclusive. The article claimed it was from the Harvard scientists, but there are no citations and references from Harvard.
Peter Tou
https://worldnewsdailyreport.com/elderly-woman-accused-of-training-her-65-cats-to-steal-from-neighbors/
ReplyDeleteThe news is incredible and obviously it is a fake news because it seems like a common sense that cat does not have such high IQ to be trained as a thief. It is also satirical because the author even does not have the basic biology common sense. Besides, there are no reliable resources in the article. The images the author uses in the article are not related to the event. Last but not least, if the news is true, the elderly lady can earn millions of dollars because of her incredible training of cats. However, it does not happen.
Yuhao Chen
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/robots-civil-rights-android-artificial-intelligence-2045-destroy-humans-sophia-singularity-a8367331.html
ReplyDeleteThis news is totally fake because it used an amazing title but did not have evidence for the author's opinion.
yanan zhang
I agree that this news source is fake. However, I think that there are more reasons for why you could claim that is. For example, the site ends in .co and the article is so littered with ads that when you really break it down, there's probably only 300 words of information. That seems kind of impossible considering the grand title that accompanies it.
Deletehttps://www.thebeaverton.com/2019/02/new-roll-up-the-rim-prize-gives-winners-a-free-coffee-from-better-coffee-place/
ReplyDeleteThe title of this article is "New ‘Roll Up The Rim’ prize gives winners a free coffee from better coffee place". To be honest, I clicked on this thinking that perhaps there was some further explanation within the article that would make the title make sense. That was of course, until I was directed from a friend from home's Facebook to The Beaverton. This is a Canadian Satire source that likes to make click-bait articles that are sometimes obvious and sometimes not. They also have their own Comedy show. What led me to see that it was fake, other than being familiar with the source, was that the article was very short. It also shared some very strong opinions about the poor quality of food and service at Tim Horton's, but wrote these opinions like they were facts.
This article definitely fooled me. Had you not mentioned this is a Canadian Satire source, I would have believed this free coffee deal was actually real. The website looks credible because it allows you to share on different platforms of social media. However, it does show some advertisements on the side and top that make me think this is not a credible source. Reading the article, it is obvious that this is a satire post. If you continue to look around at the website, the other article headlines are very weird and seem very untrue.
Delete-Alexa Marshall
https://politicot.com/paul-ryan-22-million-americans-choose-poor-problem-cant-afford-healthy/
ReplyDeleteThis was an article that I found to be semi-believable. I am pretty naive when it comes to politics because I don't actually know what is going on. However, I was able to find this news article to not be trustworthy. There is inappropriate ads at the top of the website and many pop-ups. There is also no citations of the quotes that Paul Ryan allegedly made. There is also the ability to post comments on this article, but there are 0 reported. If you scroll down, you can see that there are multiple angering article headlines that are suggested. This goes along with #7 rule that if it makes you too angry, try to find other articles that support it. I could not find any other articles that stated the information the way this website did. Had I not checked other sources, I could have been easily fooled. Usually when I find a website that does not have much back up information, I believe it is an insider view that someone has information to that no one else does. Now I know that people really post fake news and it is just to get others angry. What made me question this article's veracity is the pop-ups and inappropriate ads. I know that credible websites do not need to have advertisements on their page because they are being paid for by outsiders. This is a website that if you click on the ad, the person that owns the website will get revenue for.
-Alexa Marshall
Deletehttps://worldtruth.tv/nasa-quietly-tests-engine-that-uses-no-fuel-and-violates-the-laws-of-physics/
ReplyDeleteThis article is definitely less than credible because while it makes references to NASA and Roger Shawyer, there are no direct quotes from anyone or any method of real data being used to back up the claims in the article. In fact the only reference included is to a UK magazine site which would seem odd considering this was a test supposedly performed by NASA. Additionally, the page is littered with adds and click bait, and in order to even see who the author is you must scroll past dozens of other most likely non credible articles.
https://www.8satire.com/man-dressed-as-world-cup-trophy-is-haunting-people-in-croatia-neighborhood/
ReplyDeleteIt is easy to tell that the article is not credible because it has no author or a date that states when it was published. Also, there are no references used. And also seriously, how can a man dressed as a world cup haunt someone. Also the image on the cover doesn’t actually show the man it just shows people running away from something which doesn’t proves the author’s point.
https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-02-18-prevent-the-negative-effects-of-ionizing-radiation-caused-by-ct-scans.html
ReplyDeleteThis article is obviously not credible because first I couldn't find any other sources to support it. Then I found this website is listed in the list of fake news websites on Wikipedia by searching it on Google. So I think this article is not true.
-Yunjie Shi
Cadmon Osei
ReplyDeletehttps://www.livescience.com/8039-humans-run-40-mph-theory.html
The claims in this article is unproven but states it as factual in a hypothetical sense without claiming that it so called research and evidence is relating to that of a human body today. The article discusses the possibility of the human body reaching a speed of 40mph when the fastest recorded was around 28mph. The claims are not factual but the site claims them as such, but their extraordinary claims are beyond unrealistic to that of a peak athlete or "super human".
https://www.weibo.com/white55kai?topnav=1&wvr=6&topsug=1&is_all=1
ReplyDeleteThis post, like twitter, was that a streamer was actually hacking. But, he refused to confess and kept saying he did not hack at all. After the truth came out, we all found that he was actually hacking. And it is an absolutely fake news.