Credible

Researchers in Austria are working on a way to scan and rate 'blogs for credibility.

This sounds a bit too much like those "how sophisticated is your writing" tests that were popular a few years back--basically, you were graded on the sophistication of your vocabulary, a rudimentary spellcheck, and the number of words in each sentence.

In this case, it looks like we'll soon be judged "credible" if we drop quotes from Reuters or CNN.

I'm wondering if "credulous" wouldn't be a better adjective for that particular metric...

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