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Today's News: Fact or Fiction: Intro to Fake News

What is Fake News?

According to the fact checking website Politifact, fake news is a "concerted effort by a website or other form of media to fabricate information in order to influence political opinion or win financial gain." Use this LibGuide to help you determine fact from fiction when reading the news or for finding credible sources for your research.

Evaluating News: Test Yourself!

Fake News Terminology

Books

Caulfield, M. (2017). Web literacy for student fact-checkers [Open Textbook]. PressBooks. https://webliteracy.pressbooks.com/

Center for Countering Digital Hate (2021). Malgorithm: How Instagram's algorithm publishes misinformation and hate to millions during a pandemic. https://www.counterhate.com/malgorithm

Huguet, A., Baker, G., Hamilton, L. S., & Pane, J. F. (2021). Media literacy standards to counter truth decay. https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA112-12.html

Lewandowsky, S., & Cook, J. (2020). The conspiracy theory handbookhttps://www.climatechangecommunication.org/all/handbook/the-conspiracy-theory-handbook/ 

Lewandowsky, S., Cook, J., Ecker, U. K. H., Albarracín, D., Amazeen, M. A., Kendeou, P., Lombardi, D., Newman, E. J., Pennycook, G., Porter, E. Rand, D. G., Rapp, D. N., Reifler, J., Roozenbeek, J., Schmid, P., Seifert, C. M., Sinatra, G. M., Swire-Thompson, B., van der Linden, S., Vraga, E. K., Wood, T. J., & Zaragoza, M. S. (2020). The debunking handbook 2020. https://sks.to/db2020

Silverman, C. (Ed.) (2020). Verification handbook. European Journalism Centre. https://datajournalism.com/read/handbook/verification-3

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