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How false news can spread

Importance of Digital Literacy

Information Literacy

What is Fake News

• 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."