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Journalism

Check your facts with these tools

  • Fact Checker - from the Washington Post
  • FactCheck.org - from the Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania
  • PolitiFact - fact checking website from editors and publishers of the Tampa Bay Times.
  • Snopes - a long-standing fact checking site formally called the Urban Legends Reference Pages

Mini- Course on Fact Checking

Web Literacy for Student Fact Checkers, an ebook by Michael A. Caulfield

  • click Contents on the left to read sections
    • Four Moves and a Habit
    • Look for Previous Work
    • Go Upstream
    • Read Laterally
    • Field Guide
    • Accessibility

Mini-course: Check, Please! Starter Course

Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers by Michael A. Caulfield is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

 

Media Bias

All Sides Media Bias Chart - keeps you aware of the possible biases found in various sources

All Sides Fact Check Bias Chart - "a fact checker may be accurate, but bias"