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Not all the information you read on the internet is reliable. This exercise focuses on how to check the reliability of information you read on the internet.

Read this paragraph and answer the question below.

How Can I Know if Information is Reliable?

 

Anyone can put anything on the internet, and no editors are out there checking for mistakes. Many webpages are published by businesses or organizations that try to get you to 'buy' something or believe something. This means that you are responsible for checking whether you can rely on information you find on the internet.

 

Here are two sites that teach you how to decide if information on a webpage is reliable:

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html http://www.library.jhu.edu/researchhelp/general/evaluating/

What are the main messages in the above paragraph? Choose 2 correct answers.

Readers need to learn what questions to ask themselves in order to decide if what they read on the internet is reliable.

If you don't know who wrote the information you read or why they wrote it, you don't know if you can rely on what you read.

You can't believe anything you read on the internet.