User:Zzamgonzaga/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Misinformation

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article to evaluate because it is important in the world of social media. Social media has caused misinformation to increase at an unprecedented rate. The access to social media has allowed for misinformation to take hold of newsfeeds across the world.

Evaluate the article

 * LEAD SECTION
 * The lead sentence is concise and accurate.
 * The article does not include an outline of the article's points, but it does briefly summarize nuances of "misinformation".
 * The lead section does not include points outside of the article.
 * CONTENT
 * Relevant to topic - includes history, how to classify misinformation, causes, social media, and the impact of misinformation on society.
 * Content is up to date, last updated today, September 12, 2021.
 * This article is missing more information on trolls and what that means for the increase in misinformation.
 * TONE AND BALANCE
 * The article is as neutral as it can be. The nature of misinformation is highly political.
 * The article does not include any "liberal" issued misinformation, it states mainly conservative issues. Although there may not be presence of as much liberal issued misinformation, one may read this as "unbalanced" in standpoints. The article does not try to sway the reader into this, though.
 * SOURCES
 * All are fairly recent, within the past 21 years.
 * The article references when necessary, there is research information/sources to support the facts within the article.
 * There is a substantial mix of sources, including websites and academic research.
 * The references links work.
 * WRITING
 * The article is well-written and the organization makes sense.
 * I think that the Identification & Correction section could be better split up into sections. I think that a reader may choose to skip the information presented in those paragraphs.
 * No grammar issues
 * IMAGES AND MEDIA
 * There is only one image. Including more images may help in articulating the topics more.
 * TALK PAGE DISCUSSION
 * Some of the comments are tense, due to the nature of misinformation in society.
 * Includes the need to accurately represent misinformation in comparison to other forms of "fake news".
 * There are image recommendations as well, a user also mentions their rewrite of a section.
 * OVERALL
 * I think that this article is still an article in progress. We must rely on academic research in this article because of its political connotation. As of recently, misinformation has had a significant impact on COVID-19, which we are still learning about today. I think that as time goes on, we will learn more about misinformation (as it is a new, yet well-known topic as far as American politics). Misinformation is fairly recent in comparison to other studies, so I think that as researchers begin and continue to research the impact of social media and misinformation, we will be able to improve this article.