An online quiz where you examine images of real social media content and decide whether it's from a legitimate account or an internet troll. From Clemson University Media Forensics Hub.
Post Facto is a game where you're the fact-checker. Read the story that robot FactyPlex 5000 has been sharing on social media, and investigate the clues to determine if it's real - or fake!
This YouTube playlist breaks down fact-checking skills into eleven short, 13-15 minute videos. A collaborative effort by John Green (of Crash Course), MediaWise, The Poynter Institute, and The Stanford History Education Group.
From Facing History and Ourselves, a lesson on reviewing news accounts about the killing of Michael Brown from the initial days following the shooting to get a sense of the ways that complex stories unfold over time.
From Facing History and Ourselves, this is a lesson that explores the ways in which biases affect news and information—how news is created and reported (by journalists and others) and how we interpret it.
What is “fake news” anyway? Are we living in a post-truth world? These University of Michigan course materials will provide opportunities to discuss and analyze news production, consumption and evaluation.
This course shows students how to fact-check in five easy lessons, taking about 30 minutes apiece. The entire online curriculum is two and a half to three hours and is suitable homework for the first week of a college-level module on disinformation.
Evaluating where information comes from is a crucial part of deciding whether it is trustworthy. By observing fact-checkers, we found that the best way to learn about a website is lateral reading—leaving a site to see what other digital sources say about it.
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