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Fake News vs Critical Reasoning: Fact Checking

Authenticity of IMAGES

Everyone should know how to reverse-Google images to find their origins.

Besides doing your own Lateral work, these are Great Fact Checking sites

You can set up a Google search for any of these sites by adding "site: any site name", for instance:   "officer deaths 2016 increased 56 percent from 2015 site:factcheck.org"

·  FactCheck.Org

From the Annenberg Center; check the accuracy of statements, including advertisements, from politicians, pundits and special interest groups.

·  Politifact.com

Run by the St. Petersburg Times, the site's "Truth-o-meter" helps separate "fact from fiction" in political statements, including advertisements, from races around the country.

·  Project Vote Smart

Check voting records, background, and public statements of candidates from around the country.

·  ProPublica

ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.

·  Fact Checker (Washington Post)

From columnist Glenn Kessler, focusing on accuracy of statements of political figures "regarding issues of great importance, be they national, international or local."

·  Snopes.com

Fact-checking site for "for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation."

Web Literary on Fact Checking

Out of the Digital Rhetoric Collaborative space comes Mike Caulfield’s Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkersan open-source textbook designed to help students pick up practical fact-check skills and techniques.