Lateral Reading
What is Lateral Reading
You can out more about a website by leaving the site itself.
Lateral reading: Instead of staying with one website or article, you might need to jump around a bit. Open multiple tabs in your browser to follow links found within the source and do supplemental searches on names, organizations or topics you find. These additional perspectives will help you to evaluate the original article and can end up saving you time.
Fact Checking
When fact checking quickly scanning the website in question and then open additional browser tabs seeking context and perspective on what you are reading from other websites.
Lateral reader habits...
- Look up the site in Wikipedia
- Search for the site/article on fact-checking sites
- Search the web for the owner or publisher of the site
- Search for pages linking to the site
- Follow references back to any original sources
- Research what other sites say about the source