Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers
More Readings
- Debunking Handbook 2020The Debunking Handbook 2020 summarises the current state of the science of misinformation and its debunking. It was written by a team of 22 prominent scholars of misinformation and its debunking, and it represents the current consensus on the science of debunking for engaged citizens, policymakers, journalists, and other practitioners.
Resources
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
Five products in the National Cyber Awareness System offer a variety of information for users with varied technical expertise. Those with more technical interest can read the Alerts, Analysis Reports, Current Activity, or Bulletins. Users looking for more general-interest pieces can read the Tips.
Use Snopes for lots of factchecking: Fake News, social media stories, and rumors. Snopes’ fact-checking and original, investigative reporting lights the way to evidence-based and contextualized analysis.
The Annenberg Public Policy Center at University of Pennsylvania.
Nonpartisan, nonprofit whose goal is to increase public knowledge and understanding by fact checking politicians, advertisers, speeches, news releases, and more for accuracy, and reporting on the results.
Good resource to use for researching pros-cons and controversial topics.
A website whose stated purpose is "to 'truth squad' the statements of political figures regarding issues of great importance, be they national, international or local."
Politifact at The Poynter Institute
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.
Who really said what? This question often cannot be answered with complete finality, but approximate solutions can be iteratively improved over time.
