Research 101: Fake News

Use these sites to check the accuracy of a source's claims:

• AllSides - Presents news and issues from multiple perspectives.
• FactCheck.org - Check political claims.
• Lead Stories - Hunts for trending stories from known fake news, satire or prank websites.
• Media Bias/Fact Check - A resource on media bias.
• Not Real News - A weekly roundup of some of the most popular untrue headlines of the week, debunked by the Associated Press.
• Politifact - Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-checking site.
• Poynter Institute for Media Studies - A non-profit journalism school and research organization.
• Quote Investigator - Seeks the truth about quotations.
• SciCheck - Focuses exclusively on false and misleading scientific claims.
• Science Feedback - Investigates the credibility of claims made in the media and other sources about climate change, health and energy.
• Snopes - Award-winning fact-checking site.
• The Washington Post’s Fact Checker