Civil Online Reasoning: Assessing our abilities to evaluate digital content and reach warranted conclusions about social and political issues.

Three ways you can avoid being duped. 1. READ LATERALLY. Identify who’s behind the information presented. 2. Evaluate the evidence presented. 3. Investigate what other sources say. Three ways you can avoid being duped.

A Fresh Look at Milk Spend a few minutes investigating this native advertisement or paid post. Native ads are ads craftily designed to mimic editorial content. Their purpose is not to inform, but to promote. WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE? This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-ND

Employment Policies Institute Let’s see if we can decide if this is a reliable source. Now, let’s read LATERALLY and see what we come up with… Source watch https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/10/us/politics/fight- over-minimum-wage-illustrates-web-of-industry- ties.html https://www.salon.com/2013/11/13/corporate_america s_new_scam_industry_p_r_firm_poses_as_think_tank/ Let’s look at a timely issue – minimum wage. Would you be comfortable using this as a source for an argument highlighting the issues with instituting a minimum wage.?