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AP Lit Research 2024: Find Better Coverage

Find Better Coverage

Find Better Coverage

Sometimes when you investigate the source you'll find that the source is sufficient for your needs. 

Sometimes we can't determine the reliability of the source. And most of the time we don't really care about the source at all. We just want to get an accurate story on the subject from somewhere.

When the initial source you encounter is low quality and you just care about the claim your best strategy might be to find a better source altogether. 

Reverse Image Search

Sometimes (many times!) claims or stories will come to you in the form of images. If you want to find trusted coverage of the issue, claim, or photo, you have a couple options:

  • You can search on some relevant text from the image, if, for example it is a meme or a supposed photograph of a sign
  • You can use reverse image search. We show you how to do this in Google Chrome below, but other browsers have similar methods.

Keep in mind that if reverse image search (bullet #2) is difficult due to the device or browser you are using, you can usually get pretty far with the text search of Google Images.


 

Credits

This SIFT method guide was adapted from Michael Caulfield's "Check, Please!" course. The canonical version of this course exists at http://lessons.checkplease.cc. The text and media of this site, where possible, is released into the CC-BY, and free for reuse and revision.

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