Axxman300
Philosopher
How to know which of 'other sources' are opinion vs fact ?
How to know which can be known to be who they say they are?
Either of those two questions can be tricky.
Neither question is tricky in any way.
Credible stories are confirmed by a minimum of three independent sources. If the reporter is lucky there are also official documents too.
Opinion is easy to spot even when presented in the body of a news story (and yes, even a good reporter can slant a news story).
Fox News does this all the time using these key phrases:
Experts tell us/Experts say
People say
Research shows
Survey's say
No source or names are ever cited, and these phrases are used to paint the story with false credibility.
This is different than slating a story. The best example I can think of came from a local newspaper back in the 1970's after another fire on Cannery Row where they quoted the usual fire department and police sorces, but also quoted a pair of "onlookers" who were watching the fire from down the block. These onlookers were local "business men", and they said things like "hate to see the old place go up like this", followed by "good thing nobody was hurt though". The fire wasn't out when they made their statement to the reporter, how would they know they building was empty? If you can read you know what the slant to this story is, and the newspaper and reporter are covered because they didn't come right out and point a finger.
The fire was arson, and nobody was ever arrested for it BTW.
Q followers seek so called "proofs" of Q authenticity, often around the letter Q being the 17th in the alphabet. Like 17 seconds between posts/tweets made by Q and Trump on a singe topic, sometimes matching words or a matching typo 17 seconds apart (a general example).
Which is crap. We see this with every conspiracy theory from UFO's to the Illuminati.
Trump can't count to 17.
They measure Q authenticity in terms of how they can link Q to Trump since they believe Q either is;
* a person or a team working with Trump,
* or Trump himself (maybe with someone taking dictation?)
Actually possible. Q is a moron.
Lets ask the (now troubled) google for a list of Q proofs:
Search term:
list "proofs" of Q authenticity.
Well my goodness...apparently that number 17 thing is just one of many other types of so called 'proofs'.
You don't know how Google works.
Here are #1 and #2 search results...looks like a lot. I haven't read them.
Of course you haven't read them. Why would a CTist read something before posting it here?