For the ‘Break the Fake Part 2’ assignment, I chose the article ‘900-year-old sword dating back to the Crusades found at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea’ on the CBS News website. This is how I fact checked my source:

SOURCE CHECKING:

First, I fact checked the source (CBC News) to see how trustworthy it could possible be. I found the news channels twitter page which had a verified check mark.

VERIFY THE SOURCE:

After finding the twitter page, I found a Wikipedia article talking about the history of CBS News and all the information seemed to be trustworthy. There was nothing about this news channel being fake or not reliable.

FACT CHECKING TOOL:

The next step I took was finding if the article was checked on the website snopes.com. I could not find the article on the website so I went to checking the source by searching the title with fake typed next to it.

CHECKING OTHER SOURCES:

No article talking about this incident being fake came up and multiple even gave supporting information. Looking at the articles that provided supporting information, I checked to see if there were any known reliable sources that were commonly heard of.

The New York Times, USA Today and The West News are all sources that are commonly used and were therefore trusted.

I would say this article is TRUE and reliable as the source is extremely reliable and many other sources support the information provided.