Do you research candidates? What sites do you use?

  • simplymath@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    a variety of independent news sources.

    Wikipedia is notoriously susceptible to bias when it comes to history and politics and has a noted left center bias (according to researchers at Harvard, not my words).

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideological_bias_on_Wikipedia

    I’m not saying it’s a terrible sources but it definitely should not be the last stop and anything controversial (or the lack thereof) isn’t a meaningful indicator of whether or not something is actually true. Note the numerous examples of historical revisionism in the linked article.