Media Literacy in an Era of Fake News: Tools to Evaluate Sources

Fact-checking politicians' statements.

Checks the truthfulness of statements made by politicians and pundits.

Fact checking on issues in the news.

Investigates urban legends, hoaxes, and folklore.

A real-time rumor tracker.

Snopes fact-checks dubious photos that circulate online.

From National Geographic. A quick guide to evaluating the presentation of data in graphs and charts.

From CJR.

From Scientific American.

From Lifehacker.

Video from the News Literacy Project.

Learn how to verify Instagram images, the authenticity of a social media account, and images. From First Draft News.

Ebook that discusses how to verify sources during an emergency.

An international fact-checking website for global news.

Find out who owns a website domain.

Finds the first tweet to contain a particular term.

Tracks orporate public relations (PR) campaigns, including corporate front groups, people who "front" corporate campaigns, and PR operations.

Checks the activity of a Twitter account and gives it a score based on how likely the account is to be a bot. A collaboration between Indiana University Network Science Institute (IUNI) and the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research (CNetS).