Fact Checking, Verification & Fake News

• Go to the primary source when possible. Using secondary sources like articles can perpetuate errors.
• Search databases of news and journal articles
• Contact an expert - but check them out first! Do some background research using the sources suggested above.
• Google Scholar
• Google Books
• Reference Databases

Here are some specific suggested resources:

• FactCheck.org - A "nonpartisan, nonprofit" research center out of the University of Pennsylvania. Their funding information and funding disclosures are on their "Our Funding" page.
• PolitiFact - From the Tampa Bay Times, this fact-checking website won a Pulitzer Prize in 2009.
• Snopes.com - Billing itself as "the definitive Internet reference source for ... misinformation", Snopes.com double-checks a wide range of claims, from urban legends to Internet rumors.