Allied Health Guide

Avoid using Editorials or Letters to the Editor from print or online newspapers. These articles are "opinion pieces" and the authors may lack subject expertise.

Use these reliable fact-checking and bias-checking websites for news articles and websites:

• FactCheck.org (politics)

• Snopes (urban legends, hoaxes, folklore, memes, and rumors)   

• Climate Feedback (climate change)

• AFP (choose news, world regions, topics - health, environment, science, politics) 

• MediaBias/Fact Check (analyzes news and other website bias and contains a list of questionable sources). 

• AllSides (reviews how the same news story is covered across the political spectrum - from the left, the center, and the right).

Credible Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and other social media posts of "first-hand" accounts of current happenings, such as political rallies, strikes, protest, and entertainment events may be used as primary sources. These sources are analyzed by you, the writer (Coleman, 2013, p.60). Social media should not be used as expert analyses or interpretations to support your argument.  

Sources:

Auraria Library (n.d.). Social media as a primary source. https://guides.auraria.edu/
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Coleman, V. (2013, November/December). Social media as a primary source: A coming of age.
       Educause Review, 48(6), 60-61. https://er.educause.edu/articles/2013/12/
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