to determine the reliablity of the site we need to know what sort of fact checking they do you can establish this by showing news articles that say the site is reliable noteworthy etc or you can show a page on the site that gives their rules for submissions etc or you can show they are backed by a media company university institute or you can show that the website gives its sources and methods or there are some other ways that would work too it's their reputation for reliabilty that needs to be demonstrated please see wikipedia wikipedia signpost dispatches for further detailed information talk