Image Source: Columbia Journalism Review
Snopes.com : This highly regarded rumor analyzing site has been researching rumors since 1995.
Politifact.com : PolitiFact staffers research statements and rate their accuracy on the Truth-O-Meter, from True to False. The most ridiculous falsehoods get the lowest rating, Pants on Fire.
Media Bias Fact Check: independent online media outlet dedicated to educating the public on media bias and deceptive news practices.
Real or Satire: Homepage search box allows users to check if a URL is a satirical site.
FactCheck.org: nonpartisan, nonprofit “consumer advocate” for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. Monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews and news releases.
All Sides: Not exactly a fact-checking site but it strives to present perspectives from "all sides" of an issue.
Washington Post Fact Checker: Focused mainly on political news but contains plenty of in-depth analysis and extensive cross-checking.
Lead Stories: As they say on their website, "Lead Stories is a U.S. based fact checking website that is always looking for the latest false, misleading, deceptive or inaccurate stories, videos or images going viral on the internet."
RetractionWatch: Even peer-reviewed articles sometimes slip through the cracks and need to be retracted.
InfluenceWatch: "Capital Research Center conceived of this project after identifying a need for more fact-based, accurate descriptions of all of the various influencers of public policy issues. Many so-called 'watchdog' groups are instead opponents of the outlets they are watching. Armed with 30-years of research and data on advocacy organizations, foundations, and donors, CRC utilizes a universe of well-trained contributors to help build the individual and organizational profiles that populate the website."
SourceWatch: "The Center for Media and Democracy publishes SourceWatch to track corporations. We provide well-documented information about corporate public relations (PR) campaigns, including corporate front groups, people who "front" corporate campaigns, and PR operations."
Evidence we ignore
Overlap area: Evidence we believe
Is the tendency to search for, interpret and recall information in a way that supports what we already believe.
Image Source: Newslit.org
Use these games to practice your fake news identification skills.
Bad News is a game that puts you in charge of a fake news publication. You will learn about what goes into successful bad news and how people manipulate it for their benefit. It takes ten or fifteen minutes and might leave you wanting to play it again.
Choose Your Own Fake News - game
Characters explore different scenarios that portray how misinformation can have real-life consequences.
NewsFeed Defenders
From FactCheck.org
FakeOut
"Your social media feed has been infected by false information. Your job is to learn the skills of verification, so you can sort fact from fiction — in the game, and in real life."
Activities from CIVIX
"Our vision is a world where students view themselves as citizens, care about what is true or credible, routinely evaluate sources and claims, and know where to look for reliable information."
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