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Baldwin High School teacher Adam Foote pulled up an online article claiming an FBI agent implicated in the Hillary Clinton email leaks was found dead in an apparent murder-suicide. What did his students think of the article, he asked, encouraging them to dissect it and check for false information.
“If you saw this article when it came out, would you think twice before believing it?” Foote asked, instructing the students to look up the publication — Denver Guardian — on another tab, revealing that it was a fake news website.
“This concept of lateral reading — like you’re reading across something. You’re reading across the tabs up here,” Foote explained. “If I’m truly trying to verify how correct something is, this is what you want to do — multiple sources, multiple tabs.”
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