LibGuides: Digital LIteracy: Fake News

A friendly explanation as well as strategies for analyzing news sources.

BuzzFeed journalists show one of their technique to debunk fake news. Learn how to conduct a reverse image search to find the source of a photo or video.

Books and Ebooks

Fake News by Kari A. Cornell
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781682827161
Publication Date: 2019
Fake News and the Manipulation of Public Opinion by Carla Mooney
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781682825402
Publication Date: 2019
How Does Fake News Threaten Society? by John Allen
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781682828809
Publication Date: 2020
Sharing Posts: the Spread of Fake News by Stephen Currie
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781682822982
Publication Date: 2017
Thinking Critically: Fake News by Kathryn Hulick
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781682826607
Publication Date: 2019
21 lessons for the 21st century by Yuval Noah Harari
Call Number: 909 HAR
ISBN: 9780771048852
Harari deals with Fake News, among other topics, in this fascinating book about the issues our world is facing these days.
Bunk by Kevin Young
Call Number: 001.95 YOU
ISBN: 9781555977917
The author traces the rise of hoaxes, humbug, plagiarists, phonies, post-facts, and fake news.

Fact-Checking Websites

PolitiFact
A Pulitzer prize winning fact checking website.
FactCheck.org
A project from the Annenberg public policy center focused on US politics.
Snopes
A long-standing debunking website.

Online Resources

News Literacy Kit
How confident are you in your ability to spot ‘fake news’? Play this game to find out!

Online Verification - examples

Check an Article (Click to Enlarge the Picture)

via Western University for Health Sciences