This comment is a follow-on from the last few days of Morning Shots comments rather than a specific response to today’s column (which was great). People have been saying a lot, “Yes, but what can we do?” This is not something to do, but it lists some tools that may help you do whatever you decide to do.
This comment is a follow-on from the last few days of Morning Shots comments rather than a specific response to today’s column (which was great). People have been saying a lot, “Yes, but what can we do?” This is not something to do, but it lists some tools that may help you do whatever you decide to do.
I went down the internet wormhole yesterday looking for fact-checking resources, and these are the best I came up with.* I wanted to share them in case they’re useful to anyone else. To confirm: this is not a URL dump; I only picked out the ones that seemed to the point and helpful.
If anyone has more, maybe you could share them in the replies?
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SHORT AND SWEET POSTER-STYLE ADVICE ON HOW TO EVALUATE A SOURCE:
* I was hoping to find a resource that would be universally accepted as a starting point, but I guess that’s impossible in these fractured times. These seemed about as neutral and credible as you can get.
** Honestly, given how important this stuff is, you’d think they could give them more promotable URLs.
*** Some of these are older so they don’t cover, for example, AI or the mainstreaming of crazy. I’d love to see more on how to meet challenges like that.
**** Kate, you had more, but I couldn’t get the URLs to open off my screen shot and I couldn’t find your original post.
This comment is a follow-on from the last few days of Morning Shots comments rather than a specific response to today’s column (which was great). People have been saying a lot, “Yes, but what can we do?” This is not something to do, but it lists some tools that may help you do whatever you decide to do.
I went down the internet wormhole yesterday looking for fact-checking resources, and these are the best I came up with.* I wanted to share them in case they’re useful to anyone else. To confirm: this is not a URL dump; I only picked out the ones that seemed to the point and helpful.
If anyone has more, maybe you could share them in the replies?
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SHORT AND SWEET POSTER-STYLE ADVICE ON HOW TO EVALUATE A SOURCE:
https://blogs.ifla.org/lpa/files/2017/01/How-to-Spot-Fake-News.pdf
https://projectlooksharp.org/our-approach.php#handouts (scroll down to Categories and Sample Questions for Media Decoding) **
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ARTICLE-LENGTH ADVICE***
HARVARD
https://usingsources.fas.harvard.edu/evaluating-sources-0
CBC CANADA
(the first is background/context, the second has more how-to)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/fake-news-misinformation-online-1.5196865
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/fake-news-disinformation-propaganda-internet-1.5196964
NPR
https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/12/05/503581220/fake-or-real-how-to-self-check-the-news-and-get-the-facts
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FACT-CHECKING SITES
https://www.politifact.com/
https://www.factcheck.org/
https://www.snopes.com/
https://citizenevidence.org/2014/07/01/youtube-dataviewer/
https://www.npr.org/sections/politics-fact-check
https://apnews.com/ap-fact-check
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/
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MORE provided recently by @Kate Fall — one roundup and one health-specific — thanks again Kate!****
https://library.csi.cuny.edu/c.php?g=619342&p=4310783
https://www.ucsfhealth.org/education/evaluating-health-information
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NOTES
* I was hoping to find a resource that would be universally accepted as a starting point, but I guess that’s impossible in these fractured times. These seemed about as neutral and credible as you can get.
** Honestly, given how important this stuff is, you’d think they could give them more promotable URLs.
*** Some of these are older so they don’t cover, for example, AI or the mainstreaming of crazy. I’d love to see more on how to meet challenges like that.
**** Kate, you had more, but I couldn’t get the URLs to open off my screen shot and I couldn’t find your original post.
Thank you for doing my homework.
:-)
Great info, Amanda, will check them out.