⁉️📢 Have you heard of Lateral reading? In today’s Social and media climate, it’s important to know how to distinguish fact from fiction. Here’s some info. to help! newslitproject ⬇️📰📱💻📖 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. That’s what professional fact-checkers do. ⬇️ Questions you’ll want to ask: ⬇️❔ Who funds or sponsors the site where the original piece was published? What do other authoritative sources have to say about that site? ⬇️ When you do a search on the topic of the original piece, are the initial results from fact-checking organizations? ⬇️ Have questions been raised about other articles the author has written? ⬇️ Does what you’re finding elsewhere contradict the original piece? ⬇️ Are credible news outlets reporting on (or perhaps more important, not reporting on) what you’r...