Check Your Feed with SIFT (the four moves - Stop, Investigate, Find, Trace)
STOP:
- Take a breath, check your reaction, pause, re-evaluate.
- Ask yourself if you are certain the information is true.
- Don't re-post, use, or share until you verify.
INVESTIGATE:
- Look at the source. Who created the information?
- Look into who is behind the post and think about why they might post that information.
- Try looking on a fact-checking site, Wikipedia, or Google for the name, company, organization, story, or publisher.
- Learn about the expertise, education, and/or the agenda of the producer of the information.
FIND BETTER COVERAGE:
- If checking the source brings you to a questionable place, try looking in some other sources for similar information.
- Look beyond the first few results.
- Check in at least 3 different places.
- If the information shows up in several reliable places, it is likely to be accurate.
TRACE CLAIMS, QUOTES & MEDIA TO THE ORIGINAL CONTENT & CONTEXT:
- Trace the content back to the original source.
- Check the full context of the information -- was something left out or not included?
STOP: 
INVESTIGATE: 
FIND BETTER COVERAGE:
TRACE CLAIMS, QUOTES & MEDIA TO THE ORIGINAL CONTENT & CONTEXT: