Reliable News Sites
Fact Checking Sites
Spotting Fake News
Terms & Definitions
Fact vs. Opinion
100

This website provides trusted programming that is uniquely different from commercial broadcasting and treats audiences as citizens, not simply consumers. 

What is PBS or Public Broadcast System?

100

We are a nonpartisan, nonprofit “consumer advocate” for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics.


100

Ask a librarian, or consult a fact-checking site.


What is Ask the Experts?

100

Content that is demonstrated to be false, deliberately packaged to appear as real or true, 

and meant to deceive the reader or listener

Deliberately publishing hoaxes, propaganda, and disinformation as real news and using  social media to drive web traffic and amplify its effects.

   

What is Fake News?

100

President Obama was born in the United States.


What is Fact?

200

This website provides elected and appointed officials and others who would influence 

public policy a direct conduit to the audience without filtering or otherwise distorting their points of view.


What is C-SPAN?

200

This website was founded by David Mikkelson, a project begun in 1994 as an expression of his interest in researching urban legends that has since grown into the oldest and largest fact-checking site on the Internet — one widely regarded by journalists, folklorists, and laypersons alike as one of the world’s essential resources. 


What is Snopes.com?

200

Click away from the story to investigate the site, its mission, and its contact info.


What is Consider the Source?

200

Internet content that tempts the reader to click on a link


What is Clickbait?

200

Government is almost always efficient.

  

What is Opinion?

300

This website provides trusted business, financial, national, and international news to professionals.


What is Reuters?

300

This is a national, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that uses civic technologies, open data, policy analysis, and journalism to make government and politics more accountable and transparent to all.


What is Sunlight Foundation?

300

Consider if your own beliefs could affect your judgment.

 

What is Check Your Biases?

300

Written publication of a false and damaging statement about a person

  

What is Libel?

300

Increasing the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour is healthy for the U.S. economy.

   

What is Opinion

400

For 170 years, we have been breaking news and covering the world’s biggest stories, always committed to the highest standards of objective, accurate journalism. 

What is Associated Press?

400

This website provides resources designed to help viewers recognize flaws in arguments in general and political ads in particular.  Video resources point out deception and incivility in political rhetoric.

What is FactCheck?

400

Click on those links.  Determine if the info given actually supports the story.


What is Supporting Sources?

400

Often is fake news and designed to appear real but can be proven false  

Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view


What is Propaganda?

400

Immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally have some rights under the Constitution.


What is Fact?

500

We inform people who want to understand the world by directing attention to what matters without fear or favor.  We are the most powerful engine for independent, boots-on-the-ground, deeply reported journalism, and setting the standard for the most ambitious and innovative storytelling. 


What is The New York Times?

500

Our core principles are independence, transparency, fairness, thorough reporting, and clear writing.  The reason we publish is to give citizens the information they need to govern themselves in a democracy.


500

If it is too outlandish, it might be satire.  Research the site and author to be sure.

    

What Is It a Joke?

500

False and damaging to a person’s reputation


What is Slander?

500

Health care costs per person in the U.S. are the highest in the developed world.

   

What is Fact