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Fact Checking, Verification & Fake News

This guide was created by the Research Center at CUNY's Graduate School of Journalism

Fact Checking & Fake News Overview

As a journalist, skepticism is your job. As a citizen, skepticism is a survival skill.

Check out this ad campaign created by Mark Graham (CD, Art Director) with Josh Tavlin (CD) and John McNeil (CD) for Brill's Content: Skepticism is a Virtue. Thanks to Mr. Graham for granting us permission to use this brilliant graphic.

Text graphic declaring skepticism a weapon, a quality, and a virtue that resists spin, demands proof, and ensures accountability.

 

Think Like a Fact Checker

The idea for this free, online book came from Michael A. Caufield, Director of Blended and Networked Learning at Washington State University, who believed (and found research to support) that the standard online resource evaluation techniques (for example, the CRAAP test) taught to students were not sufficient. 

Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers

Book cover titled "Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers" with a historical map and illustrations of human figures on the left side, set against a yellow background at the bottom.