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Check Yourself with Lateral Reading: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #3

2019-01-22

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Look to your left. Look to your right. Look at this video. Today, John Green is going to teach you how to read laterally, using multiple tabs in your browser to look stuff up and fact check as you read. Real-time fact-checking an help you figure out what's real and what's not on the internet.

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Introduction
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Who Created Information
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Stop City Funded Internet Campaign
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American Legislative Exchange Council
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The Thought Bubble
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The Media
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Conclusion
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