Whats a trust worthy website to get accurate facts from? A lot of people are saying that Wikipedia cant be trusted.
Or is there nothing we can trust on these internatz?
I’d say Encyclopedia Britannica but a study found that it was about as accurate as Wikipedia.
I’d say the best way to see if a Wikipedia article is accurate is by looking elsewhere like on EB or any other website that you found on Google to see if they match. Looking for sources and references a the end of the Wiki’s article is also a good way to see if what the article says is true.
No news outlet is trust worthy. TV is always opinionated bullshit, wiki leaves out anything “controversial”, and most newspapers just straight up lie.
Don’t forget the fact that in order for you to have even created this topic, you’d have to trust us to give you unbiased sources of info.
Not true.
He might very well have asked us knowing that we would never give unbiased information because it is quite impossible to be unbiased. However, from all our views it is possible to create a general overview that might be less biased than all our views. So it’s a good question, if you ask me 
As for the question itself: read and crossreference the references wikipedia gives you at the end of an article. If an article doesn’t have references: it’s not trustworthy. Also: google and your local university/college/library will have trustworthy info, it’s just quite tedious to look for it.
Libraries all the way. Just be sure it’s a Library and not a Liberry.
It depends on what you’re searching : wikipedia is good most of the time if articles are cross-checked and with plenty of reference. News on the other hand are biased by the media who brought it (works for all media : TV, radio, press, internet, etc. because they give you their point of view or the goverment’s one). Only raw material from news agencies (AP/Reuters/AFP) are more accurate because they don’t give a developpement so it’s up to you to make your mind. Other option is to check an info from multiples sources from different countries : it’s fun to see how an event is seen from the outside and maybe sometimes totaly transformed (especialy with events like riots or wars).
Today, if you control medias, you will control minds…
Interesting enough, I’ve been told by teachers and professors the Christian Science Monitor is one of the most unbiased news outlets around. I’ve never checked, though, so I’m not sure whether to believe it.
OP, maybe tell us what you want to get in particular?
The only place where you get accurate facts is state archive.
I dont want to get anything. I just want to educate myself so the next time when im in a chatroom or reading a thread, ill know what people are talking about by learning the accurate and up to date facts.
There’s nothing more embarrassing than being put in ur place when giving a reply and some asshole (trying to make himself look smart) replies with: “hahha. u probably got that off Wiki. Wiki is incorrect, its actually blah blah blah”
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheYoungTurks
You’re welcome.
Wait, wait, wait…
Christian? Science? Unbiased? All in the same sentence?!
I need to check this out,
Tell them to get off their lazy ass and edit the wiki themselves if it’s incorrect.
Well hopefully the wiki pages that you visit have been properly cited so you can go to the bottom of the page and see where the information actually comes from. My experience is that wikipedia is a great general source of information, but you wouldn’t want to use it for anything official i.e. school or work related.
The internetz, serious business. Actually, wiki is more reliable then most of the people in any chatroom. Who the fuck they are anyway? Like they got the personal knowledge, pffft…
I think the same thing.
Any wikipedia article that doesn’t have a “citation missing” and has a bibiography. What zim said about the controversial part of articles is true, unless the article itself is about of something controversial, which in thatt case nobody can touch it unless they delete 90% of the article coughjackthompsoncoughgeorgebushcough
They’re only embarrassing themselves. Next time someone says that, tell them they’re wrong because google is wrong. It’s ignorant but a hell of a lot more justified than attacking wikipedia. Wikipedia is essentially a search engine built from scratch by humanity as opposed to generated arbitrarily by bots. Plenty of references are cited for every major article. Of course it’s not perfect, but it’s as good as anything else because in the end you always have to rely on humans, which are untrustworthy.
Books and published articles.
Use wikipedia to find facts, and confirm them from other sources. If you can’t confirm it, then don’t use the fact.