Website Examples
S.I.F.T. METHOD
STOP refers to asking whether you know and trust the author, publisher, publication, or website.
INVESTIGATE: when investigating a source, fact-checkers read “laterally” across many websites, rather than digging deep (reading “vertically”) into the one source they are evaluating. They quickly get off the page and see what others have said about the source.
FIND: your best strategy in this case might actually be to find a better source altogether, to look for other coverage that includes trusted reporting or analysis on that same claim.
TRACE: you will want to trace the claim, quote, or media back to the source, so you can see it in its original context and get a sense of whether the version you saw was accurately presented.
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