Communication & New Media: "Fake News" and Misinformation

From FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting), media watchdog group

Understanding how "fake news" is just one piece of a larger environment of both misinformation and disinformation.

Dec 2016 survey from Pew Research Center.

2018 study of more than 10 million tweets - from the Knight Foundation and researchers at George Washington Universit

Exec summary of 2016 Stanford research testing students' ability to judge the credibility of online information ("bleak").

Brief overview and list of research studies related to "fake news." (Journalist's Resource, from Harvard's Shorenstein Center)

Strategies for analyzing news sources, along with list of misleading or satirical news sources, from Merrimack College professor of communication and media, Melissa Zimdars.

From Harvard's Nieman Lab, a weekly roundup of the "growing stream of reporting on and data about fake news, misinformation, partisan content, and news literacy."

Fact-checking arm of Agence France-Press, "a multi-lingual, multicultural news agency whose mission is to provide accurate, balanced and impartial coverage of news wherever and whenever it happens in the world on a continuous basis."

From the Reporter's Lab at Duke University, a database of fact-checking organizations around the world.

From the Annenberg Center; check the accuracy of statements, including advertisements, from politicians, pundits, and special interest groups.

From columnist Glenn Kessler, focuses on the accuracy of statements of political figures "regarding issues of great importance, be they national, international or local."

Run by the St. Petersburg Times, the site's "Truth-o-meter" helps separate "fact from fiction" in political statements, including advertisements, from races around the country.

Check voting records, background, and public statements of candidates from around the country.

ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.

Rumor Guard is a platform with fact-checks of viral rumors that helps people learn how to recognize misinformation and stop it in its tracks.

Fact-checking site for "for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation."

USAFacts is not-for-profit and nonpartisan website created to comb through government data and report these findings in a clear easy to understand way.