> lateral reading, in which one vets information by leaving the source and verifying its credibility elsewhere online; I do all three things including this one

> lateral reading, in which one vets information by leaving the source and verifying its credibility elsewhere online; I do all three things including this one, though this one can cut both ways. Leaving Washington Post to go verify this suspicious story at my trusted Daily Caller. Generally I do this kind of thing a lot when you see a photo of some famous person, like George Orwell, and then a pullquote that seems a little bit too conveniently aligned to some current news event and not quite the thing you'd know Orwell to have said (like this one: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/george-orwell-people-accomplices/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/george-orwell-people-accom... I knew that Orwell was more likely to see people as victims, not accomplices), Snopes is very good for vetting these. But I had to have read a bunch of Orwell to know this quote seemed fishy.