• I always try to double check the sources of my info that concern me and my location... It's the basics of an Intelligence cycle.
• Although alarm bells do ring with some little traits....
• Yeah i know what you mean about 'belt-fed content'. I think to myself sometimes how the hell do they manage to churn out those posts every day, or even two or three times a day? Maybe they just are not checking their sources and want to just 'POST' for the sakes of posting.
• I do check links, and ive seen some pretty tenuous links out there too.

Credibility is everything. Mostly i double check everything from a number of different sources.