Fact Checkers - News
- FactCheck.org
It monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews and news releases. Our goal is to apply the best practices of both journalism and scholarship, and to increase public knowledge and understanding.
It is a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. The APPC was established by publisher and philanthropist Walter Annenberg to create a community of scholars within the University of Pennsylvania that would address public policy issues at the local, state and federal levels. - Interactive Media Bias ChartThe Interactive Media Bias Chart® (“IMBC”) is a data visualization displaying both bias and reliability ratings for news and “news-like” content.
- Media Bias/Fact Check
Media Bias/Fact Check (MBFC News) is an independent online media outlet. MBFC News is dedicated to educating the public on media bias and deceptive news practices. This is how they work: "When determining bias there isn’t any true scientific formula that is 100% objective. There are objective measures that can be calculated, but ultimately there will be some degree of subjective judgement to determine these. On each page we have put up a scale with a yellow dot that shows the degree of bias for each source. Each page also has a “Notes” section that gives some details about the source and an explanation of their bias. When calculating bias we are not just looking at political bias, but also how factual the information is and if they provide links to credible, verifiable sources." - PolitiFactPolitiFact is a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others who speak up in American politics. PolitiFact is run by editors and reporters from the Tampa Bay Times, an independent newspaper in Florida, as is PunditFact, a site devoted to fact-checking pundits. The PolitiFact state sites are run by news organizations that have partnered with the Times. The state sites and PunditFact follow the same principles as the national site.
- Snopes: Junk News ArchiveLong before Facebook, Twitter or even Google existed, the fact checking website Snopes.com was running down the half-truths, misinformation, and outright lies that ricochet across the Internet. Today it remains a widely respected clearinghouse of all things factual and not.
- The Washington Post Fact CheckerThe purpose of this Web site, and an accompanying column in the Sunday print edition of The Washington Post, is to “truth squad” the statements of political figures regarding issues of great importance, be they national, international or local. This site is not limited to political charges or countercharges. It seeks to explain difficult issues, provide missing context and provide analysis and explanation of various “code words” used by politicians, diplomats and others to obscure or shade the truth.
Rumors
- HOAXY
Hoaxy visualizes the spread of claims and related fact checking online. A claim may be a fake news article, hoax, rumor, conspiracy theory, satire, or even an accurate report. Anyone can use Hoaxy to explore how claims spread across social media. You can select any matching fact-checking articles to observe how those spread as well. - Snopes.com: Rumor has It
The snopes.com website was founded by David Mikkelson, who lives and works in the Los Angeles area. What he began in 1995 as an expression of his interest in researching urban legends has since grown into what is widely regarded by folklorists, journalists, and laypersons alike as one of the World Wide Web's essential resources.
Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers
Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers
...and other people who care about facts.
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- We need web literacy -- but we need to do it right. - Mike CaulfieldGreat video! The real issue I've found with trying to teach this kind of lateral reading and source evaluation is that more often than not the sources encountered are not as clearly off or easy to trace to their original source(s) as something like American Renaissance. Doing this right, especially when you are not a content or search expert who is experienced with a wide variety of online information sources, is that students, even highly motivated ones, don't have the time or patience to do it, even after they have been given some introductory tools and procedures to do so. The real solution, in my opinion, is that these types of fact checking and critical thinking skills and techniques need to be embedded into our education systems, into disciplinary curricula, in a coordinated way from elementary through post-graduate higher ed. That is very, very hard to do, but glad your Digital Polarization project is attempting to tackle it! - Dana Longley