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Fake News & Misinformation: Online Tools to Help

A global issue around the spread of false and incorrect information that appears to be published as fact.

Check the Facts

In order to determine the legitimacy of an article or source, a great strategy is to use another source to fact check your source. There are people who are paid to do this very task and these people are called fact checkers. Many newspapers, magazines, and journals employ fact checkers to determine if something is true before they print it! Other publications may skip this step. That is why it's important to know how to do it yourself as well. 

FactCheck.org

Politifact

Snopes

Washington Post Fact Checker

AP or Associated Press

This Twitter account is run by the Associated Press. Often articles published by AP will not list an author.  AP was founded as an independent news cooperative, whose members are U.S. newspapers and broadcasters, steadfast in our mission to inform the world.

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