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Spotting Fake News

Resources for Fact Checking

  • AllSides.com

  • This news service looks at news from various perspectives to enable readers to get the complete picture.

  • FactCheck.org

  • Easy to use website that looks at the facts behind fake news stories. A project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania.

  • Fair.org

  • FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) is a media watch group that advocates for greater diversity in reporting. Provides in-depth analysis of news stories.

  • Intersect--Hoaxes

  • Hoaxes is a section of The Intersect, a blog from the Washington Post that looks at internet culture.

  • Media Bias Fact Check

  • Tracks over 1000 news sources and identifies bias. Includes a list of fake news sources as well as satirical sources.

  • PolitiFact.com

  • PolitiFact is a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by politicians. Sponsored by staff from the Tampa Bay Times, an independent newspaper in Florida,

  • Snopes.com

  • Snopes.com defines itself as "the definitive Internet reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation."

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