{"id":2510,"date":"2016-12-06T20:41:59","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T04:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gladstonelibrary.edublogs.org\/?page_id=2510"},"modified":"2016-12-06T20:41:59","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T04:41:59","slug":"credibility-reliability-and-accuracy-on-the-web","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/gladstonelibrarylearningcommons\/credibility-reliability-and-accuracy-on-the-web\/","title":{"rendered":"Credibility, Reliability and Accuracy on the Web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s world, its very important that we are able to distinguish between real news stories and fake ones.<\/p>\n<p>The Librarian&#8217;s at The University of Toronto have come up with several suggestions of what to look for in a news story that is found online. Their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metronews.ca\/news\/toronto\/2016\/11\/30\/-uoft-librarians-develop-guide-to-help-you-spot-fake-news--.html\">suggestions were written up in a recent article in the Metro newspaper.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is the link to the University of Toronto Library website:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metronews.ca\/news\/toronto\/2016\/11\/30\/-uoft-librarians-develop-guide-to-help-you-spot-fake-news--.html\">How do I spot fake news (from U of T Librarians Heather Buchansky and Eveline Houtman)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are some websites that can help you determine if a source is credible:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/\">Snopes<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/\">Factcheck.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politifact.com\/\">Politifact<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s world, its very important that we are able to distinguish between real news stories and fake ones. The Librarian&#8217;s at The University of Toronto have come up with several suggestions of what to look for in a news story that is found online. Their suggestions were written up in a recent article in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2510","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/gladstonelibrarylearningcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/gladstonelibrarylearningcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/gladstonelibrarylearningcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/gladstonelibrarylearningcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/gladstonelibrarylearningcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/gladstonelibrarylearningcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/gladstonelibrarylearningcommons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}