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What is SIFT?

Created by digital literacy expert Mike Caulfield, SIFT is a method for evaluating online content. It's a set of actions you should take and questions you should ask yourself to establish context, and sort fact from fiction.

To help you find the context you need to make decisions about the content you're finding on the internet, Caulfield created a list of four things to do using the acronym SIFT.