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Activities & lesson plans
- Calling Bullshit syllabusFrom the University of Washington
- Evaluating Internet ResourcesUseful list of mixed sites--real and fake
- Fake News Lesson PlanFrom KQED
- Hoax websitesOne of many lists available online
- Webliteracy for Student Fact-checkers: Trace Viral Photos UpstreamRevese image searches only work in Chrome
- Breaking News Consumer's Handbook: Fake News EditionOn the Media podcast
- Center for News Literacy @ Stony BrookFrom the Stony Brook University School of Journalism. Includes a Curriculum Toolbox for teachers.
- Fake or Real? How to Self-check the News and Get the FactsFrom NPR's All Tech Considered
- Snopes.com: Snopes.com's Updated Guide to the Internet's Clickbaiting, News-faking, Social Media Exploiting Dark SideLists several sources to avoid
- Truth, truthiness, and triangulation: A news literacy toolkit for a "post-truth" worldGreat source for resources
- Web Literacy for Student Fact-checkersAn exhaustive textbook with exercises and step-by-step directions
- FactcheckBy The Annenberg Public Policy Center. Focus is primarliy political.
- Fake News WatchLists fake/hoax websites, satire websites, and clickbait websites. Last updated in Jan. 2016.
- Media Bias/Fact CheckDo you prefer left, right, or least biased? Click on a category for a list of sources.
- Open SecretsBy the Center for Responsive Politics. Primarily focusses on political issues.
- PolitifactHome of the popular Truth-o-Meter. Whose pants are on fire this week?
- PunditfactFrom Politifact , complete with Truth-o-Meter, but focuses on the utterances of pundits.
- Real or SatireEnter a URL and the site will tell you if the story is real or satire.
- SnopesThe internet's premier source for fact-checking urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation.
- TineyeReverse image search
- Truth or FictionLike Snopes but loads more quickly.
Web developers are busy creating ways to help users separate fact from fiction.
- B.S. Detector for ChromeIdentifies fake news on Facebook.
- Fake News Alert for ChromeAs it says.
- Hoaxy (beta)Enter a subject and watch Hoaxy chart its Twitter trail. Can be very slow.
- How is news marked as disputed in FacebookAnd how to mark a story as false.
- Wikipedia developing WikitribuneAn explanation of the project.
Videos, podcasts, and articles about fake news
- The #Election2016 Micro-propaganda MachineThe full text of Jonathan Albright's report looks at the sources of fake news that are spread through direct website visits and social media.
- The Dangers of Fake News Spread to Data VisualizationCharts and maps increase the persuasiveness of fake news.
- How Fake News Goes ViralThe New York Times follows the trail of a specific piece of fake news.
- How Fake News SpreadsCBC summary of Albright's report.
- Why We (Often) Believe Fake NewsArticle from Psychology Today on naive realism.
- Why Fake News Targeted Trump SupportersThe Atlantic summary of findings from the Fessler article.
- Political Orientation Predicts Credulity Regarding Putative HazardsFull text of the pre-publication Psychological Science article by Fessler et al.
- Prior Exposure Increases Perceived Accuracy of Fake NewsThis paper by 3 Yale researchers discusses how familiarity, illusory truth effect, and echo-chambersinfluence the likelihood of believing fake news.
- Why Don't Facts Change Our Minds?The New Yorker review of The Enigma of Reason by Mercier and Sperber.
class test
Which of these websites is fake?
Is this article true?
Which of these sources do you think is more reliable? Explain your reasoning.
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