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Fake News: Misinformation, Disinformation, and Malinformation

How to tell real news from fake.

Media Bias

Even typically reliable sources, whether mainstream or alternative, corporate or nonprofit, rely on particular media frames to report stories and select stories based on different notions of newsworthiness. The best thing to do in our contemporary media environment is to read/watch/listen widely and often, and to be critical of the sources we share and engage with on social media.

Here are some websites that can help you identify media bias.

Fact Checking Sites

Fact Check Bias Chart

Click here to find the All Sides website, which publishes this chart, and to learn much more about how even a site devoted to fact checking, such as Snopes.com,  can be biased (and how that is not necessarily a bad thing).