Evaluation of Social Media Sources

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by Elias Bizannes

The social media sources I found related to the AIIB Issue  ( Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank)  were from Elena Keynes and Christine Felixon  on Google + and  below I evaluate the following questions about their posts.

 - Elena Keynes

 Christine Felixon

• Credibility: Elena's Keynes doesn't  belong to any institution  or organization related to the topic but she seems to post a great deal about world interest news . Christine Felixon has vague introduction about what she does and where she studied but  is connected with the International People's Coalition for Humanity and from her twitter she shows a great amount of interest in world news , controversies, and conspiracies .

• Location: Neither one is from China but they're both posting from American locations.  Keynes is posting from Cambridge,Massachusetts and Felixon is posting from Las Vegas, Nevada  . Also neither one seems to be directly involved with the AIIB controversy.

• Network:  In Keynes circle on Google +   she only has 75 followers , they seem to be a diverse group of  people who post about political world news  , such as grad students and people who share the same interests she has. Felixon  has over 3000 followers on Google + who also seem to have a diverse range of careers and from around the world but the general posts seems to be about conspiracies and government cover ups.

• Content: The information in Keynes post can be corroborated from an article from postwestern world.com.The information in Felixon's post can be corroborated  from an investigative journalist, James Corbett, of Corbett report and includes a you tube video link from Corbett reports on the Chinese New World Order.

• Contextual Update: Keynes posts about several  political world topics and other subjects related to the AIIB controversy such as her post about the International Monetary Fund director meeting up in Ukraine to discuss AIIB  it fills in more details about who is for and against the AIIB topic. Felixion doesn't have related topics on her posts because she seems to generally post about government controversies that leas to conspiracy questions.

• Age: The age of the accounts aren't shown from their posts but regarding the amount followers and content they have each posted  it's been a few years for each of them

• Reliability: Based on each post I would consider Elena Keynes post to be the most reliable because it doesn't seem to be one sided, just informative on her interest in world politics . Felixon however seems to be geared towards controversies and cover ups since she links a YouTube video that states that the AIIB was planned years beforehand by the government.