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How to Read the News Like a Fact Checker


How to Read the News Like a Fact Checker - Facing History

This mini-lesson trains students to read online sources laterally, like professional fact checkers do, so that they can better evaluate the credibility of news ...

How to Fact Check - "Fake News" & Misinformation

How to Fact-Check Like a Pro · Check Credentials - Is the author specialized in the field that the article is concerned with? · Read the “About Us” section. · Look ...

How to Evaluate News - Keeping It Real: How to Spot Fake News

Fact checkers research news stories and other information found on the internet to determine their accuracy. If you're not sure whether the information you ...

Reading Laterally for Fact Checking - Communication Studies

Fact Checking · he Annenberg Public Policy Center · AP Fact Check · BBC News Reality Check · Center for Media and Democracy · Is it Legit? MediaWise ...

Fake News & Misinformation: How to Spot and Verify: Fact Checking ...

Fact Checkers and Sites About Fact-Checking · Duke Reporter's Lab: Fact Checking News and Global Fact Checking Sites · FactCheck.org · Full Fact, ...

Real News/Fake News: Fact Checkers - UC Berkeley Library guide

Fact Checkers · Politifact. Pulitzer Prize winning site run by editors and reporters from the Tampa Bay Times (Florida) newspaper. · FactCheck.org.

How to Fact Check Like a Pro - LexisNexis

Does this news turn up on any trusted site? - Search to see whether or how the news is being reported on legitimate journalism sites (but be wary of mistaking ...

The Essentials of Fact-Checking: Know Your News

Get familiar with the sources of your news. Are the outlets local or national? Is their coverage reliable or inconsistent? Are they funded by ...

Tools for fact-checking - "Fake News," Misinformation & Disinformation

Fact-checking news sources · FactCheck.org. Monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, ...

Media Literacy or Fake News: Develop Your Fact-Checking Skills

How to Identify Fake News · Check Credentials - Is the author specialized in the field that the article is concerned with? · Read the “About Us” ...

Think Like a Fact Checker - Knowledge Is Power: Fighting ...

Knowledge Is Power: Fighting Misinformation, Disinformation, and Junk News · Getting Started · Types of Unreliable News Content · Spotting Fake ...

Expand your view with lateral reading - News Literacy Project

Expand your view with lateral reading · Who funds or sponsors the site where the original piece was published? · When you do a search on the topic of the original ...

How to Fact Check - LibGuides: Fake News - Abqlibrary.org

Avoid Fake News How to Fact-Check Like a Pro · Check Credentials - Is the author specialized in the field that the article is concerned with? · Read the “About Us ...

Identifying Fake News - Fact Check: How to decipher online news ...

How to Spot Fake News · Consider the source · Read beyond · Check the author · Supporting sources? · Check the date · Is it a joke? · Check your biases · Ask the ...

Analyzing and Fact Checking - Fake news sources and how to spot ...

FactCheck.org : This organization checks the factual accuracy of what is said by major US political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, ...

Web Sites for Fact Checking - Misinformation and Disinformation ...

Fact-checking journalism is the heart of PolitiFact. Our core principles are independence, transparency, fairness, thorough reporting and clear writing.

It's International Fact-Checking Day: how to read the news like a fact ...

Fact checkers hold an important job of verifying all the facts and claims in a story to ensure it's accurate and represented fairly.

Fake Or Real? How To Self-Check The News And Get The Facts

... like American News sharing misleading stories or taking quotes out of context. ... read like fact checkers. But how do fact checkers do their job ...

The Fact-Checking Process - KSJ Handbook

The Fact-Checking Process · 5 minute read · Step 1: The Writer and Editor Finalize the Story · Step 2: The Writer Annotates a Copy of the Story and Sends It to the ...

Fact Checking Rules of Thumb - Media Literacy

You can begin to rule out misinformation by checking out sites like FactCheck.org, Snopes, or AP Fact Check. Understand exactly what you are dealing with: ...