Fact-Checking Resources

Fact-Checking Resources

Snopes.com – Your one-stop resource to sort out whether a story on the internet is real or fake. Formerly known as the Urban Legends Reference Page, Snopes.com is a fact-checking website that helps you sort through myths and rumors on the Internet. https://www.snopes.com

Sift – News Therapy – A news app that allows kids to read articles on a series of current topics. This app breaks down the historical context behind today’s news headlines and illustrates information through primary sources and interactive graphs and charts. https://siftnewstherapy.com

The Poynter Institute – A nonprofit media institute and newsroom that provides fact-checking, media literacy and journalism ethics training to citizen and journalists. https://www.poynter.org

Politifact.Com – A fact checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others on its Truth-O-Meter. https://www.politifact.com

Factcheck.org – A nonprofit project of the Annenberg Pubic Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. Factcheck.org monitors major U.S. political players in the forms of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news released. https://www.factcheck.org

News Literacy Project – The News Literacy Project, a nonpartisan education nonprofit founded in 2008, is building a national movement to create systemic change in American education to ensure all students are skilled in news literacy before they graduate high school, giving them the knowledge and ability to participate in civic society as well-informed, critical thinkers. https://newslit.org