The second move takes some time.
Investigate the Source
It's not always clear where online information comes from or if it can be trusted. Identify the source and check out its reputation.
Investigating the source does not require you to do in-depth research and analysis. Rather, this step is a quick check into the expertise and agenda of the online content in question. Taking sixty seconds to figure this out BEFORE reading will help you decide if it is even worth your time.
Here is a video (3:47) on the use of lateral reading to quickly investigate the source.
Please note, you are not using Wikipedia for information to cite on a research paper. You are simply using Wikipedia as a tool to check the credibility and reliability of the information from a source. A news source might be biased, but we don't care so much about that at this point--we just want to know their agenda (their intentions).
Here is a video (1:23) demonstrating how to use Wikipedia to verify a source.
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