Tips for Evaluating News Sources
Overview
An outcry over the influence of fake news in many current events underscores the importance of being able to distinguish credible news sources from the deliberately misleading. There are a variety of methods to determine the credibility of various news sites, and coming up with a checklist of things you can do to evaluate the sites and the claims people make is a method that can be used to simplify this complex task. In addition, there are several fact checking sites out there that can help provide more complete information on a topic.
- PolitiFactFact checking website that evaluates the accuracy of a claim using the "Truth O Meter"
- FactCheck.OrgFrom the Annenberg Public Policy Center
- SnopesBegan as a way to evaluate the validity of Urban Legends and has evolved into a fact checking site of several types of claims
- Google Search for Fact Checking SitesThere are other types of fact checking resources, do your own research to find your favorite