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Pre-election study of youth and their challenges identifying credible sources

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Stanford researchers find students have trouble judging the credibility of information online

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Education scholars say youth are duped by sponsored content and don’t always recognize political bias of social messages.

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EVALUATE THE POSITION:  BLUE FEED RED FEED

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EVALUATE THE POSITION:  BLUE FEED RED FEED

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The Wall Street Journal compares the same Facebook stories from two different political perspectives.

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See Liberal Facebook and Conservative Facebook, Side by Side

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This collection in the ARC catalog provides reliable sources of news and history while presenting various (and clearly-labeled viewpoints)

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Students practice website analysis through evaluating content and quality. (Download and complete digitally)

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INFO LITERACY: TEACHING CRITICAL CURATION

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INFO LITERACY: TEACHING CRITICAL CURATION

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CRAAP: ISTE- recommended criteria for evaluating information resources.

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MEDIA LITERACY: TEACHING CRITICAL CURATION

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MEDIA LITERACY: TEACHING CRITICAL CURATION

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NICE VIDEO TO SHOW IN CLASS 3:22 (video from factcheck.org)

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Important to read the "about" tab. Even fact checking sites can have a slanted motive- see newsbusters.org

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Welcome to NewsBusters, a project of the Media Research Center (MRC), America's leading media watchdog in documenting, exposing

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Important to read the "about" tab. Even fact checking sites can have a slanted motive- see mediamatters.org

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Factchecking sites for younger teens. Curated by Common Sense Media

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Common Sense is the nation's leading nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of all kids and families by providing the trustworthy information, education, and independent voice they need to thrive in the 21st century.

We're a nonprofit. Support our work

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4 Great Fact-Checking Sites for Tweens & Teens

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Parent’s Guide: watch Common Sense Media’s 4 Great Fact-Checking Sites for Tweens & Teens advice video to help you make informed decisions with your children.

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MEDIA LITERACY: TEACHING CRITICAL CURATION

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MEDIA LITERACY: TEACHING CRITICAL CURATION

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Easy/ quick introductions to critical curating from Common Sense Media

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Parent’s Guide: watch Common Sense Media’s 5 Ways to Spot Fake News advice video to help you make informed decisions with your children.

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WEB LITERACY: TEACHING CRITICAL CURATION

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WEB LITERACY: TEACHING CRITICAL CURATION

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A web literacy portal designed by educator Alan November.  Provides a scaffold for teaching media literacy in the classroom.  Can be elaborated upon or pared down to suit needs.

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"At present, we worry that democracy is threatened by the ease at which disinformation about civic issues is allowed to spread and flourish. ...If the children are the future, the future might be very ill-informed." -Stanford History Education Group, 2016.

How would you feel if you discovered that 70% of middle school students could not distinguish between fake news and authentic news on the web? According to a year-long study by the Stanford School of Education, that is exactly where we are as a country. Across 12 states and 7,800 student responses, the overwhelming majority of our students - from [...]

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Web Literacy Education for Educators - November Learning

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"At present, we worry that democracy is threatened by the ease at which disinformation about civic issues is allowed to spread and flourish. ...If the children are the future, the future might be very ill-informed." -Stanford History Education Group, 2016.

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Robust search options: hot topics (viral spiral), people, recent articles.  Excellent citations/ links to sources.

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Just because you read it on Facebook or somebody's blog or in an email from a friend or relative doesn't mean it's true. It's probably not, as we advised in our special report "That Chain E-mail Your Friend Sent to You Is (Likely) Bogus. Seriously," on March 18, 2008. More recently, we addressed the problem of bogus "stories" from fake news sites: "How to Spot Fake News," on Nov. 18, 2016.

On this page, we feature a list of the false or misleading viral rumors we're asked about most often, and a brief summary of the facts. But click on the links to read the full articles. There is a lot more detail in each answer. If you're looking for articles about other viral claims, please use our search function.

Did FactCheck.org expose Snopes.com as an "extremely liberal propaganda site"?
No. That false claim was made in a meme circulating online.
March 6, 2018

Did Donald Trump tell People magazine in 1998 that if he ever ran for president, he'd do it as a Republican because "they're the dumbest group of voters in the country" and that he "could lie and they'd still eat it up"?
No, that's a bogus meme.
Nov. 25, 2015

Is it true that members of Congress, their staffers and their family members do not have to pay back their student loans?
Not true. Some congressional employees are eligible to have up to $60,000 of student loans repaid after several years - just like other federal workers. But that's not the case for members of Congress or their families.
Jan. 6, 2011

Is there a connection between FactCheck.org and Barack Obama or Bill Ayers?
None, aside from benefiting at different times from the charity of the late publisher Walter Annenberg. We are a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania and get funding from the Annenberg Foundation, created by Walter Annenberg in 1989. Ayers was one of three Chicago educators who applied for a grant from the Annenberg Foundation in 1995, which was one of 5,200 grants the foundation made during its first 15 years. That $49 million grant, plus additional funds raised locally, funded the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, which sought to improve Chicago public schools. Obama was selected by Chicago officials (not Ayers) to chair the board set up to administer Annenberg Challenge funds, and he headed it until 1999. FactCheck.org came into being in late 2003. For other details see our Oct. 10, 2008, article about Obama and Ayers, which includes a sidebar: "FactCheck.org and the 'Annenberg Challenge.' "

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Don't get spun by internet rumors. - FactCheck.org

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Just because you read it on Facebook or somebody's blog or in an email from a friend or relative doesn't mean it's true. It's probably not, as we advised in our special report "That Chain E-mail Your Friend Sent to You Is (Likely) Bogus. Seriously," on March 18, 2008.

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Decent for fact checking memes, urban legends and rumors.  Reliable track record spanning decades.  Intriguing/ interesting for use on free time, but not ideal for classroom use as it tends to lead down the rabbit hole.

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The definitive Internet reference source for researching urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation.

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Excellent source for identifying/ rating viewpoints as right, left or center. Incorporates a social media component to allow people to agree/ disagree with the rating. "Supports balanced news, respectful dialog, school programs".

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AllSides | Balanced news via media bias ratings for an unbiased news perspective

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We use media bias ratings to provide balanced news, perspectives and issues across the political spectrum. There is no such thing as unbiased news or truly non-partisan coverage - we use technology and the crowd to provide balance.

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Great for checking quotes.  Search by person or truth level.  Ranks the truthfulness according to catchy "Truth-O-Meter" then cites the source of quote and explains further.

"a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others on its Truth-O-Meter."

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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.

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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.