LibGuides: Fake News: Fact checking websites

Political fact checking websites

Photos By Clark. (2010, Jun. 17). United States Capitol Building, Washington, D.C. Retrieved from https://www.flickr.com/photos/photos_by_clark/15365017162. Used under the Creative Commons License.

FactCheck.org
From the Annenberg Public Policy Center
FlackCheck.org
FactCheck.org's sister site, also from the Annenberg Public Policy Center
Politifact
Washington Post Fact Checker
OpenSecrets.org
Media Bias / Fact Check
Judgements on this site regarding bias are partly crowd sourced, but there is an editorial staff with a full editorial policy contributing to these judgments as well. They offer a a full description of their process for evaluating news (https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/methodology).

Other fact checking websites

Brian Dewey. (2015 Feb. 14). Perplexed. Retrieved from https://www.flickr.com/photos/bdewey/15970838933/. Used under the Creative Commons License.

Snopes.com
Hoax Slayer
Truth or Fiction
Hoaxy
Tool developed by Indiana University to visualize the spread of an online item (a news story or something else).

Both political and other

Melissa Zimdaris — Image copyright
Merrimack College

False, Misleading, Clickbait-y, and/or Satirical “News” Sources -- by Melissa Zimdars (pictured left)
Chronicle of Higher Education interview with Dr. Zimdars
Washington Post article by Dr. Zimdars