Lateral Reading
Leaving the page to see what other sources say about it — the checker's first move.
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How to verify a claim across independent sources: primary records, lateral reading, and the habits fact-checkers use before publishing.
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What Interfacts Does
Teach cross-checking — comparing independent sources before calling a claim a fact
Leaving the page to see what other sources say about it — the checker's first move.
Finding the original record a claim traces back to, not a retelling of it.
Following a footnote trail to see if ten sources are really one source, repeated.
Reverse searches and metadata checks for photos passed around out of context.
Tracing a number to its dataset and reading how it was actually measured.
Judging independence, expertise, and incentive when sources disagree.
How Interfacts Works
Follow the statement back through its citations to the original record.
Look for sources that reached the claim separately, not copies of one report.
State what the evidence supports — confirmed, contested, or unverified.
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Verifying a claim by comparing genuinely independent sources — records that did not copy from each other — before treating it as fact.
Opening new tabs to research a source's reputation and the claim itself elsewhere, instead of judging a page only by how it presents itself.
There is no magic number; two independent primary sources beat twenty articles that all cite the same press release.
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