Third-party source

A third-party source is like when you ask someone else for help finding something. For example, if you're trying to find a toy in the store but you can't find it, you might ask a store worker for help. That store worker is a third-party source because they're not you and they're not the toy you're trying to find.

In the same way, when we talk about third-party sources in things like news or research, it means information that comes from someone or somewhere else besides the original writer or researcher.

So if you read an article that quotes someone else, that quote is a third-party source because it's something that someone else said, not the original writer of the article. Or if a researcher uses statistics from a study that someone else conducted, those statistics are a third-party source because they didn't come directly from the researcher doing the current study.

Basically, a third-party source is when we get information from someone or somewhere else besides the original source, and it's important because it can help us learn more and get a better understanding of things.