What is Click Restraint and Why Should I Use It?

So, as you are intrigued by the Warka Water Towers and you want to know more but when you search in Google you get over 1 million results, what do you do?

You search for things on the internet all the time. Which search result item do you click on first? Are you usually clicking on the first result at the top of the page? Why? Is that usually the very best result in the list? Watch the video below and learn how fact checkers use "click restraint" to figure out which results are the best for their needs.

Once you have found a website that you might want to use, it needs to be evaluated for its scholarly content. Click the "next" button at the bottom right hand corner to learn how fact checkers do this.

Citations & Attributions

Video source: "How to Find Better Information Online: Click Restraint" from The Stanford History Education Group on You Tube

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