Media Literacy Resources
This page contains links to resources that allow us to become more informed, critical readers of media. Media is presented to us in many forms and it is vital that we can understand the role it plays in our lives.
Sanitize Before You Share Infographic (Stop the spread of misinformation)
Current Event Resources
Newseum : Today's Front Pages
Your Commonwealth : Youth voices, youth perspectives
Is it factual? Is it biased? Resources that can help:
ProPublica : An independent, non-profit, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative & explanatory news site
Washington Post Fact Checker : Sourced fact-checks by the WP. Misleading claims rated on a Pinnochio scale.
AllSides Media Bias Ratings: A curation of articles from left, center, and right-leaning media
Politifact : A Pulitzer-Prize winning website that rates the accuracy of claims made by elected officials
Snopes : An independent, non-partisan website run by professional research David Mikkelson
FactCheck.org : A non-profit project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania
LeadStories : A fact-checking website verified by the International Fact-Checking Network
Open Secrets : This website, run by the Center for Responsive Politics, tracks how much and where politicians get their money.
Truth or Fiction : a collection of articles exposing the truth behind a variety of topics
Check your own bias:
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