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Bookmarked To navigate the dangers of the web, you need critical thinking – but also critical ignoring (theconversation.com)

Unless you possess multiple Ph.D.’s – in virology, economics and the intricacies of immigration policy – often the wisest thing to do when landing on an unfamiliar site is to ignore it.

Liked Just Add Wikipedia! by mikecaulfield (siftingthroughtheoutbreak.wordpress.com)

So if we didn’t know Vox already, what would we do? I’m going to show you a move called “Just add Wikipedia”.

So we come up here and we hover, and we see the Vox link and follow it to the site. But rather than read the site we immediately do this — we go up to the search bar and strip off everything after the domain and type space plus wikipedia and hit return.

Bookmarked Home by mikecaulfield (siftingthroughtheoutbreak.wordpress.com)

Learning to sort through online information on the current COVID-19 outbreak

Mike Caulfield builds on his four moves in his investigation of the COVID-19 outbreak.

Liked How do you survive 25 years debunking fake news? by Dhruti Shah (BBC News)

Snopes has been investigating folklore, urban legends and fake news for a quarter of a century.

Liked A Short History of CRAAP (Hapgood)

In 2002, Chico State University did a little rearranging and got the letters into the CRAAP acronym. Others organized the questions into RADCAB.

And we taught this and its variations for almost twenty years even though it did not work, and most librarians I’ve talked to realized it didn’t work many years back but didn’t know what else to do.