Library Guides: Fake News: Fact Checking and other Resources

Key overviews and links

A Field Guide to “Fake News” and Other Information Disorders
Extensive downloadable guide
British Library St Pancras Intelligencer no 40: Fake News Special
British Library's occasional series on news about The News.
Bias, Bullshit and Lies – Audience Perspectives on Low Trust in the Media
From Digital News Report 2017 report.
News You Don't Believe
Also from the 2017 Digital News Report.

Top Fact Check Sites

Politifact
Pulitzer-prize winning site. PolitiFact rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others who speak up in American politics. Rated very highly by other Fact Checker sites
Snopes
Fact and hoax checking site. Snopes has come to be regarded as an online touchstone of rumor research. The site’s work has been described as painstaking, scholarly, and reliable.
FactCheckNI
A fact-checking site which concentrates on issues relevant (but not limited) to Northern Ireland,.
FullFact.org
UK site with the aim to [... "publish factchecks and secure corrections, but ... also champion a culture in which the public figures are held to higher standards of transparency and accountability".
Media Bias Fact Check
Describes itself as 'the most comprehensive media bias resource on the internet. There are currently 1400+ media sources listed in our database and growing every day'. Ranks (mostly) US sites for amount of bias in its content and the reliability of its stories or news.
Factcheck.org
A Project of The Annenberg Public Policy Centre. It contains excellent articles links and guidance
FactsCan
Canadian site, designed to be 'a resource for separating out the truth from spin, distortion, omission, error and lies. Our goal is to inform Canadians, enable everyone to critically engage in political discussions, and encourage politicians to be honest and accurate with their words'.
All Sides
Unlike regular news services, AllSides exposes bias and provides multiple angles on the same story so you can quickly get the full picture, not just one slant.

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Other Excellent Library Guides About Fake News

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If you want to read in more detail about the issue of Fake News, below are a few articles taken from the Library's Discovery tool

Balmas, M. (2012) When fake news becomes real. Communication Research, 41 (3), 430-454.
Allcott, H, & Gentzkow, M. (2017) 'Social media and fake news in the 2016 election', Journal of Economic Perspectives, 31 (2), 211-236.
Klein, D. & Wueller, J. (2017) 'Fake news: a legal perspective. Journal of Internet Law, 20 (10), 1-13.
Rash, W. (2017) 'Google to revise search ranking to downplay fake news, hate speech', eWeek, 25 April, 1.
Spinney, L. (2017) 'How Facebook, fake news and friends are warping your memory', Nature, 543 (7644), 168-170.
Dennis, A.R., Galletta, D.F. and Webster, J. (2021) Special Issue: Fake news on the Internet. Journal of Management Information Systems, 38 (4).
Shuting (Ada) Wang, Min-Seok Pang and Pavlou, P.A. (2022) Seeing Is believing? How Including a video in fake news influences users’ reporting of fake news to social media platforms. MIS Quarterly, 46 (3), 323–1353.