Lateral reading helps you determine an author’s credibility, intent and biases by searching for articles on the same topic by other writers (to see how they are covering it) and for other articles by the author you’re checking on.
Resources
Resources
The resources below can help you do fact checking, evaluation and investigations of your own.
Fact Check We monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews and news releases.
This fact-checking journalism approach uses a Truth-O-Meter to gauge facts in political news by members of government and others in the political arena.
