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Lateral Reading
Lateral Reading
There is a lot of valuable information online, but it can be hard to tell if that information is accurate or reliable. On the research page of this website, you learned the CRAAP method, but in order to make the most use of the CRAAP method, you will have to read laterally, open up another website and check to make sure that the information you're finding is reliable and comes from unbiased sources. Check out the video to the left to learn more about lateral reading.
Media Bias / Fact Check is a site that examines bias in media from all points of the political spectrum. It includes a "Daily Source Bias Check" that examines the truthfulness and bias of various news sources.
Snopes is a fact-checking website. The site has also been seen as a source for both validating and debunking urban legends and similar stories in American popular culture.
PolitiFact.com is an American nonprofit project operated by the Poynter Institute, with reporters and editors from the newspaper and its affiliated news media partners reporting on the accuracy of statements made by those involved in U.S. politics.
FactCheck.org is a nonprofit website that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics by providing original research on misinformation and hoaxes. It is a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center.
The Media Bias Chart from Ad Fontes Media can help you determine possible biases a source you are using may have.
The further right a source is on the x axis, the more conservative the source's bias is, the further left a source is an the x axis, the more liberal the source's bias is.
Looking at the y axis, the closer to the top a source is, the more original fact reporting or fact dense analysis the source has. The middle of the y axis shows sources that are more opinion based, and the bottom of the y axis shows sources that contain misleading for inaccurate information.
You can click on the chart to learn more.
Using TinEye, you can search by image or perform what we call a reverse image search. You can do that by uploading an image or searching by URL. You can also simply drag and drop your images to start your search.
You can discover more about an image by doing a reverse Google image search, click here to learn how to do a reverse search on an image.
How to Spot Fake News
How to Spot Fake News
Did you know that Pew Research Poll in 2018 determined that most American adults could not consistently identify factual statements from opinion statements? This is not the result of a lack of intelligence, but the result of bias, something that every person has.
When reviewing information it's important to pause and make sure that what you're taking in is actually true, especially before you share or spread the information.
One resource to check out is, Is This Legit?, a series of fact-checking videos produced by teens from the Poynter institute, that examines the validity of claims made popular on the Internet.
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