Learning how to evaluate online info by Lateral Reading. A necessary skill

[PirateRo]

1. An excellent skill an one that becomes secon-nature the more you use it

I do this constantly, if you stay on that video, it will take you to another similar video to check the author.

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Many websites seldom have an editorial group to flesh out the veracity of their reporting, so that means it’s up to us to run down the facts. These techniques scratch the surface of those skills, but they leave us in a better place than simply accepting everything we read as truthful, unbiased reporting. It helps us side-step the screen-of-truth trap, that is, blindly accepting what we read on the net as equally valid reporting, even in the face of contradicting facts.