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Skimming the Surface: Fake and Misleading News
Is It Fake News?
Extreme Fact-Checking
Preserving Evidence
Fake News in the News
Digging Deeper: Analyzing Mainstream News Coverage
Systemic Issues: Who Controls the Media?
Documenting Online Evidence
What's a News Consumer to Do?
Recognizing Fake News
6 tips to debunk fake news stories by yourself
Poynter Institute, 11/23/2015
Breaking News Consumer's Handbook: Fake News Edition
WNYC, On the Media, 11/18/2016
Ten Questions for Fake News Detection [PDF]
From the News Literacy Project and Checkology.
Tracing Viral Stories
Hoaxy
Hoaxy tracks the social sharing of links to stories published by news sources known to be questionable as well as by Independent fact-checking organizations.
TwitterTrails
Still in its early stages, this tool measures how widely stories spread on Twitter and how skeptical users are about their validity.
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