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1. 0:00how do we evaluate information
2. 0:03well disinformation is arguably a lot
3. 0:07easier to identify and sort of
4. 0:10chuck out um as patently false
5. 0:13as opposed to other types of junk
6. 0:15information or
7. 0:17fake news which is fact-based
8. 0:20but biased and selective in its
9. 0:22presentation of material
10. 0:25so if you're going to make a quick
11. 0:26evaluation and you want to
12. 0:28sort out the disinformation
13. 0:31you want to ask yourself am i looking at
14. 0:33something that's clearly misleading and
15. 0:35overtly biased
16. 0:37there's a strategy that's called lateral
17. 0:39reading that's very useful
18. 0:41now lateral reading means reading across
19. 0:43multiple sources
20. 0:45and this is basically a fact checking
21. 0:47sort of strategy
22. 0:49as opposed to engaging in deep reading
23. 0:51of a single source
24. 0:53now there's a very popular recent
25. 0:56lateral reading method
26. 0:57that was developed by a man named mike
27. 0:59caulfield who works
28. 1:01in online learning and media literacy at
29. 1:04washington state university vancouver
30. 1:07so coffee's method of lateral reading
31. 1:09and fact checking
32. 1:10is called the sift method so sift is an
33. 1:14acronym
34. 1:14and each letter stands for a different
35. 1:16move or action or step that you're
36. 1:19supposed to take
37. 1:20so you'll sometimes also hear this
38. 1:21referred to as the four
39. 1:23moves method so the acronyms sift we'll
40. 1:27we'll go through it step by step
41. 1:30so s stands for stop that means
42. 1:33that you're supposed to stop um
43. 1:36what you're looking at before you read
44. 1:39the whole thing and make an opinion you
45. 1:41want to do the lateral reading
46. 1:44so you want to take a moment to engage
47. 1:47in that source evaluation
48. 1:48now this is especially true if you find
49. 1:51yourself having an emotional reaction to
50. 1:54that headline it really means you should
51. 1:56stop
52. 1:56and do this fact checking first
53. 1:59so i is for investigate the source
54. 2:03now what coffield recommends that you do
55. 2:05is run a web search on the publisher
56. 2:08and the author to get a sense of their
57. 2:11reputation
58. 2:13their background do they have any
59. 2:15obvious biases
60. 2:16or ideological bents that they're
61. 2:18promoting
62. 2:20and wikipedia articles are actually
63. 2:22usually
64. 2:23quite reliable and good for giving you a
65. 2:26pretty accurate snapshot
66. 2:28of this so by using wikipedia
67. 2:32you can actually accomplish this step
68. 2:33quite quickly f
69. 2:36is for find trusted coverage that means
70. 2:40you want to run
71. 2:41a web search on the topic of the article
72. 2:43in order to find coverage from other
73. 2:45sources
74. 2:46what you want to know is how widely is
75. 2:48this claim being reported
76. 2:50are there well-known and republi
77. 2:52reputable sources out there that are
78. 2:54reporting on the same thing
79. 2:56really you kind of want to see is there
80. 2:58general consensus
81. 3:00on this topic or is there a disagreement
82. 3:03on it
83. 3:04now t is for trace for tracing
84. 3:08claims quotes and media back to the
85. 3:10original source
86. 3:12so this is where you're going to try and
87. 3:14find the original context
88. 3:16and see if it's being accurately
89. 3:18represented in the article that you're
90. 3:20looking at
91. 3:21so you want to trace back any references
92. 3:23in the article
93. 3:24any quotes um if there is media or an
94. 3:27image you can maybe do like a reverse
95. 3:29media search to uh over
96. 3:31i'm sorry reverse image search to see if
97. 3:34that media has been doctored in some way
98. 3:36what you want to know is is this a
99. 3:38snippet that's being taken out of
100. 3:40context
101. 3:42is it an outright fake so
102. 3:45the sift method can tell you whether or
103. 3:47not a source is generally credible
104. 3:50and whether or not it's worth your time
105. 3:52to read the whole thing or if you're
106. 3:54just looking at
107. 3:54what's an obvious piece of
108. 3:56disinformation
109. 3:58so these lateral reading and
110. 3:59fact-checking strategies they're part of
111. 4:01an
112. 4:01overall approach to making sense of
113. 4:04information
114. 4:05and understanding the world around us
115. 4:07now can help you filter out
116. 4:08disinformation
117. 4:10and give you a sense of what credible
118. 4:11sources are worth your time
119. 4:14my personal approach to understanding
120. 4:16the world
121. 4:17insofar as it relates to keeping up with
122. 4:19the news is that
123. 4:21i want to identify a small handful of
124. 4:24reputable
125. 4:24independent authors and news
126. 4:26organizations that are reporting on
127. 4:29issues in particular those that i care
128. 4:31about
129. 4:32and that they're using an approach and a
130. 4:33methodology that
131. 4:35makes sense to me that they're bringing
132. 4:38in multiple viewpoints that they're not
133. 4:40being overly ideological
134. 4:43i also think that if you're a news
135. 4:46junkie
136. 4:47or an addicted social media scroller
137. 4:51probably one thing you would want to do
138. 4:53to help with your information evaluation
139. 4:55skills is actually back away
140. 4:57and consume less information so
141. 4:59information overload when we get
142. 5:01overwhelmed with so much information
143. 5:03coming in
144. 5:04we lose our ability to just stop
145. 5:07and think and reflect and that sort of
146. 5:09critical thinking
147. 5:11is really what is ultimately going to
148. 5:13help us be better
149. 5:15evaluators of information