Unless you possess multiple Ph.D.βs β in virology, economics and the intricacies of immigration policy β often the wisest thing to do when landing on an unfamiliar site is to ignore it.
Tag: Fact Checking
So if we didnβt know Vox already, what would we do? Iβm going to show you a move called βJust add Wikipediaβ.
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 β we go up to the search bar and strip off everything after the domain and type space plus wikipedia and hit return.
Learning to sort through online information on the current COVID-19 outbreak
Snopes has been investigating folklore, urban legends and fake news for a quarter of a century.
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 Iβve talked to realized it didnβt work many years back but didnβt know what else to do.