🌲 How to Evaluate Stuff You Learn on the Internet

Rules of thumb for figuring out whether what you're learning from the internet is a useful truth or dangerous misinformation.

Let’s say you’re taking your first steps into the wide world of learning stuff independently, and are being inundated with all sorts of “fake news” and propaganda, questionably accurate pop-sci books and outright lies, clickbait headlines and the inevitable result of memetic games of telephone played out on social media. How do you find sources you can …