Use these general criteria to help you evaluate the credibility of an online source.
TED Video: How False News Can Spread
Blue Feed, Red Feed (from Wall St. Journal)
http://graphics.wsj.com/blue-feed-red-feed/
Compiled by Science Librarian Jim Crocamo, jc2120@columbia.edu
University of Toronto Libraries - guide to spotting fake news
https://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/faq/how-do-i-spot-fake-news
How Stuff Works - How to Spot Fake News
http://history.howstuffworks.com/history-vs-myth/10-ways-to-spot-fake-news-story.htm
“How to (seriously) read a scientific paper”
http://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2016/03/how-seriously-read-scientific-paper
Factcheck
http://www.factcheck.org/2016/11/how-to-spot-fake-news/
Stony Brook University School of Journalism’s Center for News Literacy
http://www.centerfornewsliteracy.org/
Indiana University East Library’s Guide: Fake News
http://iue.libguides.com/c.php?g=595482&p=4119773
Pace University Library’s Guide: Real News vs. Fake News
http://libguides.pace.edu/fakenews
John Jay College of Criminal Justice Lloyd Sealy Library Guide: Fact Checking, Verification and Fake News
http://guides.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/fakenews
Harvard Library’s Guide: Fake News
http://guides.library.harvard.edu/fake
Cornell University Library’s Guide: Evaluating News Sources
http://guides.library.cornell.edu/c.php?g=620317&p=4319651
Penn State University Libraries fake news guide:
http://guides.libraries.psu.edu/fakenews
Indiana University East fake news guide:
http://iue.libguides.com/c.php?g=595482&p=4120560
Gustavus Adolphus College library:
http://libguides.gustavus.edu/FakeNews
California State University Chico:
https://www.csuchico.edu/lins/handouts/eval_websites.pdf
Columbia University Libraries: Journalism subject guide
https://guides.library.columbia.edu/journalism
The News Literacy Project
http://www.thenewsliteracyproject.org/
The Psychology of Climate Change Communication
http://guide.cred.columbia.edu/
Evaluating Information: The cornerstone of civic online reasoning
Stanford History Education Group:
https://sheg.stanford.edu/upload/V3LessonPlans/Executive%20Summary%2011.21.16.pdf
NPR article on Stanford study:
“Inside the Macedonian fake news complex”
https://www.wired.com/2017/02/veles-macedonia-fake-news/
Wired.com themed issue - The News In Crisis
https://www.wired.com/tag/news-in-crisis
“Inside a Fake News Sausage Factory: ‘This Is All About Income’”
“Solving the Problem of Fake News”
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/solving-the-problem-of-fake-news
ACRLog: Information Literacy and Fake News
http://acrlog.org/2017/01/22/information-literacy-and-fake-news/
How Facebook’s News Feed Algorithm Works
Anatomy of clickbait
https://www.wired.com/2015/12/psychology-of-clickbait/
“Before Jon Stewart” (from Columbia Journalism Review) - fake news vs. bad/wrong news
http://archives.cjr.org/feature/before_jon_stewart.php
Angela Cochran’s Article in The Scholarly Kitchen: What we can Learn from Fake News
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2016/11/15/what-we- can-learn-from-fake-news/
Sarah Hicks of the ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom’s Blogpost
http://www.oif.ala.org/oif/?tag=fake-news
Donal A. Barclay’s PBS Newshour’s Column: Can librarians help solve the fake news problem?
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/column-can-librarians-help-solve-the-fake-news-problem/
“Evaluating Information; The Cornerstone of Civic Online Reasoning” by the Stanford History Education Group
https://sheg.stanford.edu/upload/V3LessonPlans/Executive%20Summary%2011.21.16.pdf
“Post-truth: Study epidemiology of fake news” by Adam Kucharski
http://www.nature.com.ezproxy.cul.columbia.edu/nature/journal/v540/n7634/full/540525a.html
“Fake News” in Journalism Practice Vol. 10 , Iss. 7, 2016 by Irina Khaldarova and Mervi
Pantti
http://www.tandfonline.com.ezproxy.cul.columbia.edu/doi/full/10.1080/17512786.2016.1163237
“Paid Protesters” tweet:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/business/media/how-fake-news-spreads.html
“Weather Channel to Breitbart: Stop using us to mislead the public on climate change”
Weather channel response video:
https://weather.com/news/news/breitbart-misleads-americans-climate-change
Kellyanne Conway and “The Massacre at Bowling Green”
“Kellyanne Conway says Donald Trump’s team has ‘alternative facts.’ Which pretty much says it all”
“Facebook User Verifies Truth of Article by Carefully Checking It Against His Own Preconceived Opinions”
http://www.theonion.com/article/facebook-user-verifies-truth-article-carefully-che-54790