LibGuides: Information Literacy and "Fake News": Online Fact-Checkers

Online Fact-Checkers

Online Fact-Checkers to help evaluate news or claims on the internet

Use these websites to help you investigate rumors and dubious stories.

AFP Fact Check
AFP's digital verification specialists work around the world to monitor online content in local languages, from Amharic to Hindi, Mandarin or Malaysian. They take into account local contexts including culture and politics. Stories are edited by multilingual editors working in regional hubs.
FactCheck.org FactCheck is a nonpartisan, nonprofit “consumer advocate” for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. 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.
NPR
NPR will sometimes have Fact Check articles. You can search for Fact Check or your topic.
OpenSecrets.org Nonpartisan, independent and nonprofit, the Center for Responsive Politics is the nation's premier research group tracking money in U.S. politics and its effect on elections and public policy. OUR VISION is for Americans to be empowered by access to clear and unbiased information about money’s role in politics and policy and to use that knowledge to strengthen our democracy. OUR MISSION is to produce and disseminate peerless data and analysis on money in politics to inform and engage Americans, champion transparency, and expose disproportionate or undue influence on public policy.
Politifact Fact-checking journalism is the heart of PolitiFact. Our core principles are independence, transparency, fairness, thorough reporting and clear writing. The reason we publish is to give citizens the information they need to govern themselves in a democracy.
Snopes With over 20 years’ experience as a professional researcher and writer, David has created in Snopes.com what has come to be regarded as an online touchstone of rumor research.
Washington Post Fact Checker The purpose of this website, 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. It’s a big world out there, and so we rely on readers to ask questions and point out statements that need to be checked.

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Information Literacy and "Fake News"

Online Fact-Checkers

Online Fact-Checkers to help evaluate news or claims on the internet

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