Media Literacy or Fake News: Develop Your Fact-Checking Skills: Fact-Checking Sites and Plug-Ins

A website that rates the bias of news stories and other articles, labeling them according to where they fit on a political spectrum from left to center to right. And it posts multiple versions of major stories and their ratings. Readers can test their own biases on the site.

This Stanford University study published on Nov. 22, 2016 showed that more than 7,800 middle school, high school and college students in 12 states could not assess the credibility of the information that floods their smartphones, tablets, and computers — despite their aptitude for digital and social media." Working from this perspective the NLP teaches students how to differentiate between, on the one side, reporting that seeks to present information fairly, accurately and contextually and, on the other, opinion, rumor and disinformation. This is a great potential resource for students and educators.

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

A professional networking website where you can look up the authors of articles and books to see if they're credible.

The News Literacy Project (NLP) is an innovative national educational program that mobilizes seasoned journalists to work with educators to teach middle school and high school students how to sort fact from fiction in the digital age.

A collaboration between journalists and educators to improve students’ information literacy through lessons in the classroom and its online program Checkology.

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

One of the oldest debunking sites on the Internet, Snopes.com focuses on urban legends, news stories and memes. the also cite their sources at the end of each debunking.

The Post's Fact Checker blog is run by journalist Glenn Kessler. The site assesses claims made by politicians or political advocacy groups and gives out Pinochios based on its level of accuracy.

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Huge list of fake news sites