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So, for me information credibility is knowing
how accurate the information is and who said the information,
who provided the information. And so I look for who the source was
that gave me the information or where I got the information.
Was it an article? Was it a book?
Was it a blog? Was a wiki?
And then I need to know who wrote it and how...
because that information is really tie to that person's credibility.
What I want to do if that all possible, is go backwards
and find the original source of the information
because the original sources is going to be more credible,
should be more credible than everybody who repeats it.
It's like the game of telephone.
You know, where I was for something to you, and you were for something to somebody else.
And by the time it gets the tenth person, it was totally different.
So you need to get back to the source and find out what the original person said.
Also, if you're talking about news, research results, anything like that,
the information that comes out of the original source is not only more accurate,
but it's also more information than what gets pass along.
So the closer you get back to the original source, the more information you may have available to you.
And it's the raw information. It's not someone else's interpretation of that.
The other thing that kind of comes to play is we know from how we all use information,
the credibility is known by the community.
The community can look at that source person, that source company, that source organization,
the source of information and judge its credibility.
And this is a problem that people point out with blogs and other things
and say how do I know the blog is credible.
I can't cite a blog. It's a blog. It's not credible.
Or it might be highly credible,
but you have to be part of the community, of that topic community
in order to know if it is credible.
To have the knowledge base to be able to judge the credibility.
So is a blog on copyright credible?
Well, if you're not a copyright expert you have no idea.
But if you are a part of the broader copyright community,
then you could look at the copyright blog and judge it and judge its credibility.