FACT+Check+Sources

= Fact Checking or Learning to Spot Fake News = Kamenetz, Anya. “Learning To Spot Fake News: Start With A Gut Check.” //NPR //, NPR, 31 Oct. 2017, www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/10/31/559571970/learning-to-spot-fake-news-start-with-a-gut-check.

= **Sites For Spotting Lies** = Fact-checking sites recommended[| by the book]Web Literacy For Student Fact-Checkers, by Michael Caulfield

= Factcheck.org = = Washington Post Fact Checker = = Snopes = = Truth be Told = = NPR Fact-Check = = Lie Detector (Univision, Spanish language) = = Hoax Slayer = = FactsCan = = El Polígrafo (Mexico, Spanish Language) = = Guardian Reality Check = =Politifact= =Learning To Spot Fake News: Start With A Gut Check =

> Author [|ANYA KAMENETZ] >> Mike Caulfield, director of blended and networked learning at Washington State University in Vancouver. >> >> "Mike Caulfield has distilled this approach into what he calls "Four moves and a habit," in a [|free online textbook] that he has published. It's aimed at college students, but frankly it's relevant to everyone. >> >> >> __The Four moves are:__ >> 1. Check for previous work >> 2. Go Upstream to the source >> 3. Read laterally >> 4. Circle Back >> > > **__Lizard Brain - Habit__** >> Finally, Caulfield argues in his book that one of the most important weapons of fact-checking comes from inside the reader: "When you feel strong emotion — happiness, anger, pride, vindication — and that emotion pushes you to share a 'fact' with others, STOP." >> >> >> His reasoning: Anything that appeals directly to the "lizard brain" is designed to short-circuit our critical thinking. And these kinds of appeals are very often created by active agents of deception. >> "We try to convince students to use strong emotions as the mental trigger" for the fact-checking habit, he says."
 * 1) <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">**Check for previous work**: Look around to see whether someone else has already fact-checked the claim or provided a synthesis of research. [Some places to look: [|Wikipedia], [|Snopes], [|Politifact]and NPR's own [|Fact Check] website.]
 * 2) <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">**Go upstream to the source:** Most Web content is not original. Get to the original source to understand the trustworthiness of the information. Is it a reputable scientific journal? Is there an original news media account from a well-known outlet? If that is not immediately apparent, then move to step 3.
 * 3) <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">**Read laterally:** Once you get to the source of a claim, read what other people say about the source (publication, author, etc.). The truth is in the network.
 * 4) <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">**Circle back:** If you get lost or hit dead ends or find yourself going down a rabbit hole, back up and start over.

Kamenetz, Anya. “Learning To Spot Fake News: Start With A Gut Check.” NPR, NPR, 31 Oct. 2017, www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/10/31/559571970/learning-to-spot-fake-news-start-with-a-gut-check.