Media Literacy Guide

There are a variety of ways people can check on the sources of online information. Beyond evaluating the details of the site itself, try simply googling the title of the information and adding Fake to see if the information has already been called into question. Another method is to use a dedicated Fact-Checking site such as those listed below. While this is not a comprehensive list, it is a few sources to help you evaluate information.

• Associated Press Fact Checker

  AP Fact Check
  Fact-checking, accountability journalism and misinformation coverage from AP journalists around the globe.

• MediaSmarts Break the Fake Custom Search Engine

  This lets you search all of these fact-checkers at once:
  • Snopes.com
  • Agence France Presse Canada
  • FactCheck.org
  • Politifact
  • Washington Post Fact Checker
  • Associated Press Fact Check
  • HoaxEye
  • Les Decrypteurs

• Snopes

  Snopes
  /snoʊps/ NOUN and sometimes VERB
  We are the internet’s go-to source for discerning what is true and what is total nonsense.

• Tin Eye: Reverse Image Searching

  TinEye is an image search and recognition company. We are experts in computer vision, pattern recognition, neural networks, and machine learning.