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Evaluating Information

These sites can help you evaluate the accuracy, reliability, and currency of information in general, and Internet information in particular.

Fake News
How to identify and avoid fake news.
Evaluating Information Found on the Internet
A guide by Elizabeth E. Kirk of Johns Hopkins University.
Evaluating Resources
A guide from the UC Berkeley library.
Critically Analyzing Information Sources
A resource from Olin-Kroch-Uris Libraries at Cornell University.
Evaluating Sources: Overview
A resource from the Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL).

Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers

Web Literacy for Student Fact Checkers
This short, open source book by author Michael Caulfield provides alternative, web-native approaches to news literacy and fact-checking. It is also available as a PDF.