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there are a lot of things about like being a person that we digital natives definitely should have been taught in school like how do I open a bank account how do I do my taxes how do I write a resume luckily we're used to using the Internet to answer our burning it's burning us is burning us to word computer assistant is burning us to word burning astiz most definitely not a word burning or most burning but no burning estates 2020 this is a video series for young people most of whom have never lived in a world where the internet didn't exist I could tell you about how in the olden days people answered their questions by traveling out of their houses to go to the library opening up a paper encyclopedia yadda yadda yadda or we could jump right to the part where I tell you how to understand this overwhelming endless digital landscape you were born into and how to use that understanding to decide for yourself what candidates and issues you want to support and vote for I'm Evelyn from the Internet's and this is the media wise voter guide let's talk about research in the lead-up to a general presidential election we hear a lot about the presidential candidates it makes sense right they're applying for the most important job in the country you'd hope to hear a lot more about them than like the next Avengers movie or like at least the same amount but your average ballot is going to have many more questions on it than do you accept this rose I mean do you accept this president like I said the presidential candidates get a lot of attention but what about the Senators representatives governors mayors and countless other elected officials that are vying for new gigs and then there are ballot questions in which your city or state might ask for your opinion on an amendment to your City Charter or a state constitution there are a number of ways you can find out the positions of candidates running for office and get information about ballot questions for starters you can join a town hall event where candidates answer audience questions on what we call the issues some of these events will focus on a specific topic like health care or gun violence others will be more general and open to any topic of concern of course these events might look a little different in 2020 thanks to social distancing even before the pandemic candidates across the political spectrum held virtual town halls these are online rather than IRL you just log into a live video feed and enter your questions and a chattri come prepared with questions depending on the level of office IRL Town Hall's may be open audience Q&A s where you line up at the mic and have your shot others have campaign staffers screen questions from the audience that way you minimize all the people who say this is more of a comment than a question and ramble for 10 minutes how do you find out about these town halls well the same way you can learn about a candidate's viewpoints straight from the horse's mouth follow them on social media presidential campaigns have accounts on every platform you can think of but even your local deputy comptroller may have a Facebook page it might even explain what a deputy comptroller is candidates for government office also often have campaign websites where they list their proposed policies and qualifications these will give you an idea of why they think they're the right person for the job those websites will also usually list upcoming events like town halls of course messaging from any candidates official channels has one goal to get them elected now that doesn't necessarily mean their words are untrustworthy it's just something to remember as you read that objective getting them elected may color which policies they talk about or which issues they emphasize take a minute to analyze what topics they don't have messaging about that will tell you what is and what is not important to them to get a different perspective on the candidates you're researching there are a few great avenues first you can try local news sources particularly if you're looking for information on state or city level candidates oftentimes candidates and smaller races or just outside of the presidential race don't get much coverage outside their region your local newspaper or new site may be the best way to keep tabs on the day-to-day campaign updates and upcoming events voter guides are another great resource these guides come in many shapes and sizes but they typically focus on one of two things telling you who's on your ballot telling you who to choose on that ballot who's on my ballot databases are super helpful say you're not always plugged into your local elections where you just moved somewhere new a resource like ballotpedia org Rock the Vote org or vote for one one org can pull up what your ballot will look like based on your address that's a great jumping-off point for further research you can't dig into a candidate's policies if you don't even know who's running right then there's the guides that look to persuade you towards particular candidates they usually consist of articles explaining different candidate policies and the arguments for voting one way or the other a variety of advocacy organizations and community groups also put out these kinds of guides these endorsed candidates based on how they do or do not support the goals of that organization whether it's supporting a geographic region or an industry or a group of people okay but what if you don't want to be guided you're an independent woman like beyond saying you can make your own decisions so how do you start gathering that info for yourself if you're not finding what you're looking for in voter guides hit up the OL bugs and search your favorite topics and your candidates name but this isn't some willy-nilly research free-for-all no matter what you find you need to practice good Civic online reasoning when we encounter new information we take a step back to evaluate it a helpful place to start is the five W's you may have learned in elementary school who what when where and why whatever information you find online ask yourself who is saying it what is their proof and what are other people saying when was this published where was this published and why is this being published now you're not always going to need all five questions to vet every piece of information you come across but they're a good place to start to better understand these questions it helps to see how this process would play out so meet Sam they want to learn about the mayor of Springfield and what she has to say about increasing the minimum wage Sam could search mayor Shiro and minimum wage the results that populate include Shiro's reelection campaign website a link to the Springfield daily newspaper with a story headlined protesters picket City Hall seeking higher minimum wage a link to another story this time from a site you don't recognize it says mayor Shira wants to lower minimum wage can you believe it question mark question mark the homepage for a local group called raise our wages now before Sam dives in they'll want to give each of these results to look over instead of just picking the first one reading the snippets on a search engine result page can teach you a lot about the sources you're about to enter this is sometimes a good place to ask yourself that why question why anything is being published on mayor Shiro's campaign website is to convince you to reelect her why things are being published by that local group is to advance its cause maybe she rose campaign site will have some information and the story about protesting City Hall seems related but this story about lowering the minimum wage that sounds kind of wild right Sam wants to check it out but they're prepared to be skeptical this comes from a website that's just called Springfield news site Sam hasn't heard of it before so they scroll through the story it claims that mayor Shero went on a tirade at an unnamed restaurant claiming she wanted to lower the minimum wage so everyone would make less money Sam doesn't think that's a great way to get elected so they asked who is saying this there's no byline on this story so they jump to where this story is being published Sam looks for the websites about page it simply says proud to be your city's oldest operating news source which doesn't really help so Sam pops the Springfield new site into their search engine and it comes up on the list of fake news sites it describes Springfield news site as a source of falsehoods mixed in with real news hmm really not confident in this site now but back to the article what is the proof for this tale about mayor Shero just a few lines of text from an unnamed patron of an named restaurant that isn't a ton of evidence to go on Sam definitely suspects that this is false time to see what other sources have to say Sam goes back to those first search results for minimum wage the springfield daily newspaper story about protesting may have some info Sam sees a byline when they click through it leads to a verified Twitter handle with that reporter's name cool looks like a real person Sam sees that in the story protestors were asking City Hall and mayor Shiro to raise the minimum wage to $15 mayor Shiro met with them and said she is putting together a plan to raise it by the end of this year there's even a photo of Shiro meeting the protesters Sam also checks the date to see when the article was published and that was a month ago so it looks like this info is relatively up-to-date it appears that the first site Sam visited was untrustworthy it didn't provide any information about where the news was coming from and had little evidence to back up its story another outlet that had more evidence for their claims disputes the first story entirely Sam successfully used those key questions to get to the bottom of it anytime you encounter new online information you can use these questions to investigate that goes for tweets instant articles tick tocks you can evaluate them all and it's critical that you do so whenever your research because when you're deciding who should be in charge of your town or state or country you need to know all the facts you can that includes attending town hall events online or reading campaign materials and doing your due diligence when you go hunting on your own by taking a moment to reflect on evidence and sources you'll ensure you're prepared for election season and really any information that comes your way it's your new superpower go use it the media wise voter project is led by the Pointer Institute that's a journalism teaching nonprofit complexly the creator of this video is a partner on MVP and so our campus vote project and another cool coalition organization called students learn students vote the media wise voter project is by Facebook