SCSU Hilton C. Buley Library: Critical Thinking: Conspiracy Theories, Urban Legends, and Moral Panics: Fake News

Intro

Everything below began as part of a Teaching Academy 2018 panel. The full libguide can be found here.

Factcheck
By The Annenberg Public Policy Center. Focus is primarliy political.
Fake News Watch
Lists fake/hoax websites, satire websites, and clickbait websites. Last updated in Jan. 2016.
Media Bias/Fact Check
Do you prefer left, right, or least biased? Click on a category for a list of sources.
Open Secrets
By the Center for Responsive Politics. Primarily focusses on political issues.
Politifact
Home of the popular Truth-o-Meter. Whose pants are on fire this week?
Punditfact
From Politifact , complete with Truth-o-Meter, but focuses on the utterances of pundits.
Real or Satire
Enter a URL and the site will tell you if the story is real or satire.
Snopes
The internet's premier source for fact-checking urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation.
Tineye
Reverse image search
Truth or Fiction
Like Snopes but loads more quickly.

Web developers are busy creating ways to help users separate fact from fiction.

B.S. Detector for Chrome
Identifies fake news on Facebook.
Fake News Alert for Chrome
As 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 Facebook
And how to mark a story as false.
Wikipedia developing Wikitribune
An explanation of the project.

The #Election2016 Micro-propaganda Machine
The 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 Visualization
Charts and maps increase the persuasiveness of fake news.
How Fake News Goes Viral
The New York Times follows the trail of a specific piece of fake news.
How Fake News Spreads
CBC summary of Albright's report.

Why We (Often) Believe Fake News
Article from Psychology Today on naive realism.
Why Fake News Targeted Trump Supporters
The Atlantic summary of findings from the Fessler article.
Political Orientation Predicts Credulity Regarding Putative Hazards
Full text of the pre-publication Psychological Science article by Fessler et al.
Prior Exposure Increases Perceived Accuracy of Fake News
This 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.