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Lateral and vertical reading are strategies used to determine the reliability of a digital source of information such as a website. Many of the questions lateral readers ask are the same as the vertical readers who scroll up and down the pages of the source they are evaluating. Vertical readers tend to make judgements based on features internal to a website like its URL, design, functionality, or content. Lateral reading is basically searching for information about a source while you are reading it by reading what other sites say about your source. Lateral readers gain a better understanding as to whether to trust the facts and analysis presented to them.
