Steps to help you evaluate news stories, websites, media, and other sources you fine online. Browser plug-ins that automatically alert you to unreliable news sources.
With resources like Google at our fingertips, information isn't hard to find. What is challenging is determining whether that information is credible and can be trusted. Is it factual? Biased? Relevant to your topic?
A Google search is often our first stop to gain a basic understanding of the main ideas about a topic, but since anyone with access to a computer can publish anything online, it is crucial that you evaluate the information you find.
Web sources can be particularly hard to evaluate, so here is a handy acronym to help you determine if a source may be CRAP.
