Evaluation of Social Media Sources

The person who posted this video is a women who has her Ph.D. on philosophy, and teaches ethics of science. Therefor, she has the knowledge to express a credible opinion about the controversy. She is not in the location that she is tweeting about and is not directly involved with any of the events taking place. She is followed by a big number of science junkies. Multiple of them have interests in astronomy. The information she is relaying is a video sitting in mauna kea showing people how sacred the land is to the Hawaiians. The information can’t directly be corroborated with other sources. Janet if a frequent poster about the thirty meter telescope. Her past posts are links to updated articles on the controversy. The account is not recently created and Janet is an experienced tweeter. The information is reliable as it only shows emotions directly from a Native himself.

MY second post was from BJ Penn Hawaii News. Which is a newscast company in Hawaii.  The tweet is very credible due to the fact that it comes from a newscasting company based in Hawaii . It may be biased but still credible towards their position on the controversy. The location of the tweet is not on the same island but in the same state, therefore, they are close to the action of what is going on in this debate. Their network is the public if Hawaii. Most of their followers don’t seem to have credible sources other than the fact that their followers ar Hawaiian, and Hawaii is the center of the controversy. The tweet is more of a opinion than a fact, but it shows the side in which most hawaiins par-take. This tweet was one of the first on this topic.