* News: Evaluating News Sources

Zimdars, M. (2016). 'False, Misleading, Clickbait-y, and Satirical “News” Sources.’ (Manuscript). Merrimack College, Department of Communication and Media, North Andover, MA. Recently featured in the Chronicle of Education.

Think like a fact-checker using lateral reading from multiple sources and searching for independent information on the publishing organization, funding sources, and other factors that might indicate the reliability and perspective of a site and its authors or sponsors.

Compilation of studies about fake news by Harvard's Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy

Video of a TED Talk by Markham Nolan of CBS News on investigative techniques that can be used to verify information in real-time.

How to tell fake news from real news in the post-truth era

An open-source, interdisciplinary, scholarly journal focused on all aspects of misinformation and featuring methodologically diverse, peer-reviewed, empirical research and cutting-edge commentary.

Resources and news about "fake news" and news literacy

Report by Data & Society that reveals why media was vulnerable to radicalized groups online.

Handbook is a step by step guide for verifying digital content initially created for reporters and emergency responders.

"A nonpartisan, nonprofit 'consumer advocate' for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics".

Run by the Tampa Bay Times (which is owned by journalism school the Poynter Institute), this site checks and ranks political claims

Fact checks political and governmental topics

Evaluate web page history using this web archive that captures websites over time and can be used to verify content history and edits.

Identify parts of an image that may have been modified or “photoshopped”.

Upload or use a URL image to check the content history or to see similar images on the web (select the camera icon to search by image).

Identifying the location of a suspicious photo or video is a crucial part of the verification process.

Upload or enter the URL of an image and view its metadata.

Upload or enter an image URL to the search bar and see a list of related sites.

Provides bias ratings for various media providers

Mobile application to help you read beyond the narrow perspective of your pre-existing political perspective.

Website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and media sources.

Allows you to look up the owner of an Internet domain.

Visualizes how fake news stories and fact-checking stories spread on social media. Hoaxy is a project of the Indiana University Network Science Institute and the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research.

Study on political news consumption habits in the U.S.

Report on fake news online and the the potential impacts of online social interaction.

The site that many journalists are using to find breaking news. Lots of analysis of words, data to see what is trending.

A site dedicated to the study of media attention and influence for issues affecting countries around the world. Access our raw data through the public API.