Part 1
Evaluate the Website Minimumwage.com using the skills and resources these skills include lateral reading, going upstream to the source of a news story or image, using Wikipedia for background information etc.
Please write in complete sentences and take care to proofread your submission. Make sure to address each question in your written submission. If you are really using lateral reading skills, you will be providing outside sources with links you found to inform your evaluation of your chosen site.
Who is responsible for the content on this site? Look at what the site says about itself and then remember to verify this information by looking beyond the site itself. Do not simply provide a name, this question requires you to find out something about the person or the company behind the content.
Describe what the purpose or intent of the site is. Briefly explain how you came to this conclusion. What sources outside of the site did you access to get this information?
Were you able to find any information on the site’s history of accuracy and authority on the subject matter? What do other sources have to say about the authority of information on this site?
Do you see any evidence of bias on the site itself? Did you find any outside sources that identified this site as displaying bias on the subject matter?
Would you use this site as an authoritative, unbiased source for a research paper on the topic it specializes in? Briefly describe why you would or would not use this source
Part 2
Watch this Ted Talk by Andreas Ekstrom called “The Moral Bias behind your search results.”
Share your reaction to the talk. If you’re cynical like I am, then it’s not surprising that people try and game the system to make their message come up first in your search results. Should Google have all the power to decide who is allowed to work the system and who isn’t?
Make sure both parts are separated and not merged together

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