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Tag: going upstream

Posted on July 1, 2019July 1, 2019

Move 2: Go upstream

Going upstream means following a piece of content to its true source, and beginning your analysis there. Your first question when looking at a claim on a page should be “Where did this come from, and who produced it?” The answer quite often has very little to do with the website you are looking at.

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