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Evaluating News
Evaluating News
Newspaper Sources
Newspaper Sources
A research guide to the newspaper sources at Pickler Memorial Library
News Literacy Sources
Digital Resource Center
from Stony Brook Center for News Literacy. This is a repository for lesson plans people have used to teach news literacy, primarily to college students.  You must register to use the material but registration is free.

Evaluating Social Media
from Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries and University Museum.

Fake News
from Penn State University Libraries

Fake News: News Literacy
 
How to Choose Your News-TedEd
Questions to Ask Yourself
Deconstruction Guide to Evaluating a News Source
from University of South Florida Libraries
How to Spot Fake News
from FactChecker.org
Six Questions that will Tell You Who to Trust
from American Press Institute
Ten Questions for Fake News Detection
from the News Literacy Project
Fact-Checkers
AllSides
Displays news coverage from "left", "right", and "center" sources. Use with caution as the categories are generated by users and reflect public perceptions of each news source rather than any actual bias in the individual articles displayed.

FactChecker.org
A product of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, this site is terrific for checking up on political claims.

PolitiFact.com
The Pulitzer Prize-winning PolitiFact researches the claims of politicians and checks their accuracy.

Snopes
One of the oldest debunking sites on the Internet, Snopes.com focuses on widely circulating urban legends, news stories and memes.

Washington Post Fact Checker
Focused primarily on political stories.
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