## Example

Miss USA Boycotts Miss Universe Pageant: "I'm Not Competing Against a Man"

##### Investigate the source

- The author: This is the headline of an article shared on social media without a disclaimer by diffrent users. No author is cited in the posts, but they do include a link to an article on the website Billbordi.com, which simply gives the name billbordi1 as its author. If you Google that name it yields no useful results.
- The source: If you search the website Billbordi.com you will find no "about us", "disclaimer", or "contact" page. A quick Google search informs you that it appears to be an entertainment website.
- What do others write about the source: If you Google the reliability of Billbordi.com you will not find anything useful.

##### Figure out the purpose of the post

- The source: The website Billbordi.com appears to be nothing more and nothing less than an entertainment website that shares entertainment news. Conclusion: Billbordi.com's motive appears to be sharing worldwide entertainment news.
- The article: The content of the article consists of a very brief bio of Natasha Berkelston, Miss USA 2022. The article then states that Natasha will not be competing for the international title of Miss Universe. This statement is followed by a quote from Natasha, in which she says that she "won't compete against a man", and that she "won't be in the same locker room", as those "areas are sacred and no place for a man". The article then claims that Rikki Valerie, the winner from the Netherlands, won by guilting the jury with her essay on transrights. The jury supposedly buckled for fear of retribution from the LGBTQ community. The articles continues by saying that Natasha will "return to her duties as Miss USA", and seems to claim she will miss out on making a deal with Playboy for standing up for her morals by choosing not to compete against a trans-woman. Next, the article quotes Rikki's spokesperson, who does not seem to understand why anyone is upset, as Rikki transitioned young, before her modelling career, and that she chose to come out. The article ends by claiming that the previous statement made a bunch of conservative men confess that, despite her Summer Glau-esque smile, she [Rikki] is "pretty hot for a dude". The same text, underneath the same headline, can be found in an article on the website of the Dunning-Kruger Times. Here, the autor's name is given as Flagg Eagleton. If you Google the name of the author you will find that it is the alias of Christopher Blair, who runs and owns the satirical website The Dunning-Kruger Times. On the About us page on the Dunning-Kruger Times website it is clearly stated that they are a satirical website. Conclusion: Billbordi.com seems to have copied the satirical article from the Dunning-Kruger Times and presented it as entertainment news.

Conclusion: The source is not well-known and the article has an unknown and/or satirical author. The people quoted in the article supposedly made some rather specific statements. But what about the burden of proof? We will investigate that in the next step.