Fact Checking, Fake News, Media Literacy, & Propaganda

Guides & LibGuides

• ACT UP: Evaluating Sources (Salem State University)

• The CRAAP Test (California State University, Chico)

• Evaluating Web Resources (North Carolina A&T State University)

• Fact Checking, Verification, and Fake News LibGuide (John Jay College of Criminal Justice)

• Fake News: A Library Resource (American Library Association)

• Fake News LibGuide (Indiana University East)

• Fake News LibGuide (Gustavus Adolphus College)

• Fake News LibGuide (Penn State)

• Fake News LibGuide (Pace University)

• Fake News LibGuide (University of Virginia)

• Fake News Research Guide (Harvard University)

• Fake News Resource Round-Up Programming Librarian, 23 February, 2017.

• False, Misleading, Click-baity, and/or Satirical “News” Sources

• How to Detect Bias in News Media

• An Intro To Political Education

• Lifelong Information Literacy (LILi) LibGuide

Resources

• Associated Press (AP) Fact Check Hub

• B.S. Detector

• Calling Bullshit

• Center for News Literacy

• Center for Public Integrity

• Data Advocacy for All

• Day of Facts February 17, 2017 #dayoffacts Twitter campaign

• Ethical Journalism Network

• Fair Observer

• FactCheck.org

• Fact Tank (Pew Research Center)

• Librarian WikiWisdom Forum

• Media Literacy Now

• Media Matters

• MediaSmarts (Canada’s Centre for Digital and Media Literacy)

• News Literacy Project

• NewsGuard

• Politifact

• Project Look Sharp

• Propublica

• Snopes

• Trump Archive

• Washington Post Fact Checker

Articles

• Alternative Facts and Fake News-Verifiability in the Information Society. IFLA Blog, 27 January 2017.

• Barclay, Donald A. “Can Libraries Help Solve the Fake News Problem?” PBS NewsHour, 6 January 2016.

• Colglazier, William. "The Best Tips For Spotting Fake News in the Age of Trump." teenvogue.com, 17 Jan. 2017.

• Cooke, Nicole A. "In the war on fake news, school librarians have a huge role to play." Interview by Kaitlyn Tiffany. theverge.com, 16 Nov. 2016.

• Crum, Maddie. "After Trump Was Elected, Librarians Had to Rethink Their System for Fact-checking." huffingtonpost.com, 12 March 2017.

• Dollinger, Arielle. "Can Librarians Save Us From Fake News?"  vice.com, 21 March 2017.

• Pitts, Rebecca. "5 Steps to Improve Your Media Literacy." teenvogue.com, 26 April 2017.

• Ravenscraft, Eric "How to Spot and Debunk Fake News". lifehacker.com 29 Nov. 2016.

Podcasts & Webinars

• Breaking News Consumers’ Handbook

• How to Think In the Information Age: Finding Facts In a Post Truth World. Florida Library Webinars on soundcloud.com, 16 Feb. 2017

• Post-Truth: Fake News and a New Era of Information Literacy. programminglibrary.org, 22 Feb. 2017