Articles, Guides, Books
GRAPHIC STORIES ABOUT FAKE NEWS
Videos, Watchdogs, Tools
- CRAAP test
When you search for information, you're going to find lots of it but is it good information? The CRAAP Test is a list of questions to help you evaluate the information you find. The different criteria will be more or less important depending on your situation or need.
- Bad News
This game puts you in charge of a fake news publication. You learn what goes into successful bad news and how people manipulate it. It takes 10-15 minutes and might leave you wanting to play it again. The game is intended for use in education and scientific research.
- False, Misleading, Clickbait-y, and/or Satirical “News” Sources
In 2016, a Google Doc created by Professor Melissa Zimdars went viral. It provides advice on how to evaluate news articles (with a list of websites to avoid or question). Many of the sites on the list are aggregators – they take news stories from other sources and rewrite them with inflammatory headlines and without contextual facts.
- Checkpoint
Checkpoint is a research project at PROTO, which uses a tip line on WhatsApp (+91- 9643-000-888) to collect information that is otherwise inaccessible given the nature of private messaging. The goal of this project is to study the misinformation phenomenon at scale on WhatsApp during the Indian elections.
- Project Vote Smart
Vote Smart is a historic undertaking. Citizens come together not out of selfish interest but to defend democracy. It is an extraordinary gathering of people committed to one purpose: to strengthen the most essential component of democracy and check voting records, background, and public statements of candidates from around the country.
- ProPublica
ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. We dig deep into important issues, shining a light on abuses of power and betrayals of public trust — and we stick with those issues as long as it takes to hold power to account.