# Don’t Go Down the Rabbit Hole - The New York Times

<https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/opinion/fake-news-media-attention.html>

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## What Jamie wrote

This advise captures how I tend to deal with information online. I purposefully do not engage in fringe type content that I perceive as trying to pull my attention, and engagement. If I find myself on a website and it starts to tickle some of my senses about misinformation, I will usually do a `whois` lookup on the domain name. If it is hidden or anonymous, I leave the site immediately, with the one exception being a personal blog. The overall approach of lateral reading is a good one, but watch out for very broad sets of misinformation that have established a lateral reinforcing network. Stay safe out there! 👮‍♀️

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