LibGuides: Armed Conflict, Propaganda, Politics, and the Public: Tools to Identify & Decode Propaganda

Teaching and Learning Sites

Civic Online Reasoning - COR Located at Stanford University, COR provides free curated lessons and assessments that help you teach students to evaluate online information that affects them, their communities, and the world as well as a research-based curriculum for helping students deal with the issue of fake news.
Digital Resource Center Located at the Center for News Literacy at SUNY Stonybrook it provides access to a library of curated curriculum, lectures, and exercises, including a weekly update of fresh materials for college instructors and high school teachers as well as video tutorials and materials for students students to work independently or prepare for a "flipped classroom."
Misinformation Monitor A free monthly newsletter from NewsGuard covering misinformation, disinformation, and false news online with exclusive data from five countries.
NewsGuard Founded by Steven Brill and Gordon Crovitz, NewsGuard is an extension you can add to any browser that provides red and green rating icons next to news links on search engines and social media feeds, such as Google, Bing, Facebook, Reddit and Twitter. NewsGuard's goal is to separate sites that are doing reliable journalism from purveyors of false or misleading news or disinformation.
Verification Handbook The Verification Handbook is a groundbreaking new resource for journalists and aid responders, which provides step-by-step guidelines for using user-generated content (UGC) during emergencies.

Proganda Check List

Source: The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)

Developing Your Skills & Checking the Facts

Center for News Literacy Located at Stony Brook University School of Journalism. The center is committed to teaching students how to use critical thinking skills to judge the reliability and credibility of news reports and news sources. It is the only center of its kind in the United States.
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Using start-up funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, since 2007 the Center has taught News Literacy to over 10,000 Stony Brook undergraduates across all academic disciplines.
How Reliable is Your News Source? Understanding Media Bias 2020 Helpful charts and sites rating MEDIA BIAS, demonstrating CURRENT EVENTS FROM 3 POINTS-OF-VIEW & showing how to FACT CHECK.
Is this source or information good? When you search for information, you're going to find lots of it... but is it good information? You will have to determine that for yourself, and the CRAAP Test can help. The CRAAP Test is a list of questions to help you evaluate the information you find. Different criteria will be more or less important depending on your situation or need.
News Literacy Project The News Literacy Project is a national education nonprofit offering nonpartisan, independent programs that teach students how to know what to believe in the digital age.
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http://newslit.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/NLP-Brochure-10-10-19-DIGITAL.pdf
The Science of Fake News This article how the rise of fake news highlights the erosion of long-standing institutional bulwarks against misinformation in the internet age.
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Science magazine has been at the center of important scientific discovery since its founding in 1880—with seed money from Thomas Edison. Today, Science continues to publish the very best in research across the sciences, with articles that consistently rank among the most cited in the world.
Six Principles of News Literacy Article that outlines the importance of being able to analyze and understand news stories you are exposed to.
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This article is part of American Society of News Editor's (ASNE) Youth Journalism Initiative launched in 2000. It is committed to helping students learn why news matters and acquire the skills needed to succeed as 21st-century citizens.
Why News Literacy Matters Article on the need to develop ones information literacy and information evaluation skills and importance of being news literate in the digital age.
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The author, Richard Hornik, is the director of Overseas Partnerships at the Center for News Literacy - Stony Brook University -State University of New York (SUNY)
AP (Associated Press) Fact Check Fact-checking and accountability journalism from Associated Press journalists around the globe.
BBC News Reality Check Sifts through news stories in order to provide information on what is factual while also investigating claims made by people and organizations.
Duke Reporters' Lab An online database of global fact checking sites. As of October 2019 there are links to 210 active fact-checkers in 68 countries.
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The Reporters’ Lab is a center for journalism research in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. Their projects focus on fact-checking, but they also do occasional research about trust in the news media and other topics.
FactCheck.Org FactCheck.org is a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania and is a nonpartisan, nonprofit “consumer advocate” for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. It monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews and news releases.
Hoax-Slayer The goal of the Hoax-Slayer Website is to help make the Internet a safer, more pleasant and more productive environment by: - Debunking email and Internet hoaxes - Thwarting Internet scammers - Educating web users about email and Internet security issues - Combating spam
New York Times Fact Checks A searchable databases that contains analysis of statements and claims made by politicians and evaluation of their veracity.
Politifact Rates accuracy of statements and claims made by politicians and others.
Snopes Snopes.com’s fact checking and original, investigative reporting provides evidence-based and contextualized analysis. They document our sources where possible so readers are empowered to do independent research and make up their own minds.
Truth or Fiction
Washington Post Fact Checker The purpose of this website, and an accompanying column in the Sunday print edition of The Washington Post, is to “truth squad” the statements of political figures regarding issues of great importance, be they national, international or local. It’s a big world out there, and so we rely on readers to ask questions and point out statements that need to be checked.

Armed Conflict, Propaganda, Politics, and the Public: Tools to Identify & Decode Propaganda

Free Newspaper Accounts for Students and Faculty

New York Times

Wall Street Journal

Teaching and Learning Sites

Proganda Check List

Developing Your Skills & Checking the Facts

How to Choose Your News -- TED Ed