You've heard of fact-checking, but source-checking?

Avoiding biased information becomes easier when you know what outlets to read from. I'm sure you have all heard of fact-checking, but what really helps when avoiding misinformation is source-checking.

There are many websites that review news outlets on scales of bias. My personal favorite is mediabiasfactcheck.com. This website allows you to search news outlets, or browse from their extensive list, and find how they are scaled from far-biased left to far-biased right. In addition, this website informs you if the outlet uses propaganda, false information, and gives insight on how frequently the outlet is citing sources. Also, it lists questionable sources so you know where not to get your news.

Here are some examples of popular news sources searched on mediabiasfactcheck.com:

FOX News

CNN

Associated Press

When you search a news organization, this website gives you an extensive amount of information about the source (history, analysis, ownership, etc.) so you can make your own opinion backed with the facts.

There are plenty of fact-checking websites out there nowadays, but I prefer mediabiasfactcheck.com because it is frequently reevaluating its sources with updated and more detailed source-reviewing formats. Also, this website runs the sources by many other popular source-checking websites before evaluating it with their own format.

Source reviewing websites are a great tool because as consumers, we can obtain a better understanding of an outlets's motive or agenda.

I encourage you to browse this website's list of least biased news sources, and look up some of your favorite news outlets and see where they stand!