Evaluate a Source's Credibility
Assess how much to trust a source — its signals of reliability, potential bias, and what to corroborate.
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Prompt
Help me evaluate how much to trust a source. (You can't browse to verify it here — assess it on its own signals and reasoning.)
The source (paste it, or describe it — who's behind it, where it's published, when):
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What I'd be using it for (optional): {{use}}
Assess:
- **Signals of credibility** — evidence, reasoning, transparency about methods or sources, expertise, and how it handles uncertainty and opposing views.
- **Red flags** — unsupported claims, emotional or loaded language, obvious bias or conflict of interest, missing sources, cherry-picking, or a mismatch between confidence and evidence.
- **Likely bias or agenda** — who produced it and what they might be trying to achieve, based on what's here.
- **Bottom line** — how much weight to give it, and what to **corroborate** elsewhere before relying on it.
Judge it on what's actually present; don't assume facts about the source you can't see, and don't claim to have verified its accuracy — flag what needs independent checking. If I gave too little to assess it, tell me what to look at (author, publisher, date, citations).