The SIFT strategy is quick, simple, and can be applied to various kinds of online content: social media posts, memes, statistics, videos, images, news articles, scholarly articles, etc.
This website provides fact-checking as well as current news organized by "leaning" and bias. The goal of the site is to provide people with transparency on the bias of the news they're reading.
"NLP’s viral rumor rundown is a review of significant and timely examples of mis- and disinformation that also offer important news literacy lessons and insights."
"When misinformation obscures the truth and readers don’t know what to trust, Snopes’ fact-checking and original, investigative reporting lights the way to evidence-based and contextualized analysis."
"Using TinEye, you can search by image or perform what we call a reverse image search. You can do that by uploading an image or searching by URL. You can also simply drag and drop your images to start your search."
In which John Green previews the new Crash Course on Navigating Digital Information! We've partnered with MediaWise, The Poynter Institute, and The Stanford History Education Group to teach a course in hands-on skills to evaluate the information you read online. The internet is full of information, a lot of it notably wrong. We're here to arm you with the skills to separate the good stuff from the inaccurate stuff, and browse the internet with confidence.
"To understand the misinformation ecosystem, here's a break down of the types of fake content, content creators motivations and how it's being disseminated"