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Lateral Reading and the Nature of Expertise: Reading Less and Learning More When Evaluating Digital Information

This study compares how professional fact checkers, historians, and first year college students evaluated online information and identifies the strategies fact checkers used to efficiently and effectively find trustworthy information.

By Sam Wineburg and Sarah McGrew

Full article available at Teachers College Record