Fact Checking Tools

Websites for fact-checking images

Use tineye.com for fact checking images.  Tineye.com is a reverse-image search engine.

Not sure if the image you're looking at is real or AI generated?  Use the AI or Not website to find out.  You can use it free for 20 images a month.  More than that and they will charge you a subscription.

Websites for fact-checking news/rumors

Maldita.es is a Spanish language Fact-checking site.  Excellent resource!

Click the link and type the topic you would like to fact-check into the custom search bar. Search through multiple fact-checking articles.

TruthOrFiction.com  is another fact-checking website that sorts news stories into "truth" or "fiction" categories using evidence to prove their findings.

AFP draws on its worldwide network of journalists for contributions to its fact-checking blogs.  Fact-checking has been a core element of AFP’s work as a global news agency for more than 180 years.

"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."