FACT CHECK · MEDIA, SOURCES AND WHO PAYS
Claim: Our source ladder: T1 documents to T5 social
CONTEXTTHE ANSWER
T1 documents, official data; T2 wire and archival news; T3 academic historians; T4 NGOs, think tanks (lean named), Wikipedia; T5 social media, only if corroborated. Some cards sit on T4; we upgrade.
SOURCE
Project source policy (SMART_ARCHIVE_DESIGN s4); Wikipedia:Reliable sources
en.wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org
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