Detecting Disinformation & Fake News

• A Young Person’s Guide to Spotting Fake News (Yes! Magazine, February 2, 2023,  by Project Censored and The Media Revolution Collective)  https://www.yesmagazine.org/democracy/2023/02/02/fake-news-media-literacy 

• Avoiding Deception: Detecting Disinformation (guides.vote) https://guides.vote/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Z-Detecting-Disinformation.pdf

• How to Spot Fake News (International Federation of Library Associations & Institutions)

https://www.ifla.org/publications/node/11174 

• How well can you tell factual from opinion statements? [Quiz] (Pew Research Center) https://www.pewresearch.org/quiz/news-statements-quiz/ 

• Lexicon of Lies: Teaching Resources (Caroline Jack and Monica Bulger, Data & Society Research Institute) https://datasociety.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/DataAndSociety_TeachingGuide_LexiconofLies.pdf 

Lexicon of Lies: A Guide to Terms for Problematic Information reviews the meanings of a variety of terms related to problematic information, and explores the places where those meanings break down or become complicated. The teaching resources can be used in undergraduate and graduate level classes. to inform  i classroom discussions of current events around “fake news,” “post-truth,” media manipulation, or disinformation.

• Lamboozled! Card Game (The Media Literacy Group of the Media and Social Change Lab of Teachers College, Columbia University) This game is designed to help young people identifyfake news and misinformation. They are in the process of developing a digital version. 

• “Fake News: Defining Fake News” (PennWest California) https://library.calu.edu/fakenews/define 

• Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers (Free online textbook created by Michael A. Caulfield) https://pressbooks.pub/webliteracy/#main 

Developing General Media and Digital Literacy Skills 

• Citizen Literacy (University of Louisville library) https://library.louisville.edu/citizen-literacy/home 

• Civic Listening Corps   https://ati.io/civic-listening-corps/ 

• Checkology https://get.checkology.org/ 

• Cyber Civics Student Hub https://www.youtube.com/@CyberCivicsStudentHub/about 

•  Junkipedia  https://ati.io/junkipedia/ 

• NewseumEd https://www.newseumed.org/ 

• NewsLit Quiz: Should you share it? (Education Edition) https://newslit.org/educators/resources/news-lit-quiz-should-you-share-it-education/ 

• S.I.F.T. (Stop; Investigate the Source; Find Better Coverage; Trace Claims, Quotes, and Media to the Original Content - Mike Caulfield - https://infodemic.blog/ 

• New York Times Resources for Teaching and Learning (based on their articles, photos, videos and graphs) https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/learning-activities-for-students 

• Spaceship Media:
  Dialogue journalism
  Why facts don't change minds
  Project design 

• The Polarization Lab https://www.polarizationlab.com/our-tools 

  • Are you Being Trolled?  (Answer questions and the Troll-O-Meter will predict the likelihood that they are a political troll (an extremist who engages in uncivil behavior designed to antagonize the other side)

  • How Do Your Political Views Compare? (Ideology quiz helps individuals see how their political views compare to others)

  • Check My Echo (Tool for Twitter users to measure how strong your echo chamber is)  

• The news and critical thinking: Why is it important? https://au.reachout.com/articles/the-news-and-critical-thinking-why-is-it-important?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&_kx=Nn_kSnhkvygcQomTe9_TAa9ZetzCOUIYQW9t_MXbncA%3D.TAzfUF 

• Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers (Free online textbook)) https://pressbooks.pub/webliteracy/#main 

Discerning Media Bias

• Media Bias Chart (AdFontes)
  Static -  https://adfontesmedia.com/static-mbc/ 
  Interactive - https://adfontesmedia.com/interactive-media-bias-chart/

• Media Bias Ratings (AllSides): https://www.allsides.com/media-bias#ratings

• The Media Manipulation Casebook https://mediamanipulation.org/ 

Understanding Algorithms

• Algorithmic Transparency Institute  https://ati.io/ 

Recognizing Media Manipulation

• “9 tools to identify fake images and videos” (Arizona State University, NewsCo/Lab)

https://newscollab.org/2019/02/04/9-tools-to-identify-fake-images-and-videos/ 

• The Media Manipulation Casebook https://mediamanipulation.org/