When you search for information, you're going to find lots of it. But is it accurate and reliable? You will have to determine this for yourself, and there are a number of tools that can help on our guide to evaluating information.
One way to begin evaluating a source is to look at these five criteria in relation to the source:
Evaluating news sources can be especially tricky--our guide on this can help! You may also want to take a look at this Media Bias Chart (static version can be found here.)
Reliability of Sources discusses what makes information reliable and explores one model for evaluating reliability (CRAAP). You'll learn to point out and apply criteria that can be used to judge the reliability of information.
