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Web Credibility

https://www.prageru.com

PragerU is a website that publishes digetsible videos that disperese conservative and somewhat controversial views towards a typically teenager audience. Valenza's article points out that students today struggle with verifying biases in their news as she cites a study from Stanford University's graduate school of education, "By high school, we would hope that students reading about gun laws would notice that a chart came from a gun owners’ political action committee. And, in 2016, we would hope college students, who spend hours each day online, would look beyond a .org URL and ask who’s behind a site that presents only one side of a contentious issue. But in every case and at every level, we were taken aback by students’ lack of preparation" (Stanford University qtd. in Valenza). PragerU is one such website that capitilizes on student's naivety. They will share seemingly benign ads on popular videos targeted towards teens and will present their views in a very biased manor as they try and attack democratic and social values. This subtle indoctrination is especially harmful to teenagers because they are typically not aware of PragerU's intentions. PragerU also calls itself "Prager University", corroborating that there is a scholarly aspect to it even though there is not.

Wikipedia Evaluation

Neither working at the WWW consortium or "Good Faith" being bestselling can be deemed verifiable based on the terms set forth by Wikipedia. To verify working at the WWW consortium, Wikipedia links a self-written archived page on the WWW website which although showcases that he had access to the site doesn't validate the claim that he has worked there as a longtime member because it isn't corroborated by a third party. "Good Faith" being bestselling is even less verifiable because there are no references listed on Wikipedia saying that it is bestselling and providing credible sources to back up the claim. I would suggest adding more information from a third party verifying that he was a longterm member of the WWW consortium and either providing credible citations that his book was bestselling or remove the term bestselling.

The article was first created on 08/01/2011.

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