2. Qualify and validate intellectual authority

Each piece of information is created and written by an author or a "media" outlet, without the author's name necessarily being mentioned. It is also sometimes simply relayed.

One of the first key points is to do everything possible to identify the author.

• Type into Google the most significant words in the information. If few results come up, then read all the pages carefully, looking for an author credit. If there are more pages of results, you can use the "search tools" function – personalized period to try to go back in time and detect the first publication of this information, which will sometimes also enable you to find out more about its author.

• Add the keywords "author" or "written by" or "published by" or "proposed by" or "written by" to your query.

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