Fake News & Misinformation: How to Spot and Verify

COR videos show how fact checkers evaluate digital information and how educators are teaching their students these strategies. The COR curriculum is based on peer-reviewed research.

Explanation of news literacy and its importance; includes 14 lessons about different aspects of news literacy.

In this free online course, learn how to fact and source-check in five easy lessons. Each lesson is about 30 minutes; the entire course is about three hours. It can be dropped into any course or taken as a self-study experience.

CTRL-F: Find the Facts is a verification module that teaches simple digital literacy skills students can use to determine the reliability of any piece of information. CTRL-F is the keyboard shortcut for ‘find’ and the idea is that we can all develop a habit of using quick strategies to investigate news and information to determine what to trust. The module is built around three key skills: investigate the source, check the claim, and trace the information to find the original context. A series of engaging short videos provide the foundation of the learning, introducing concepts and demonstrating skills. These are led by pioneering digital information literacy expert Mike Caulfield (Washington State University, Digital Polarization Initiative), and disinformation expert Jane Lytvynenko, a senior reporter with BuzzFeed News who tracks false and misleading information and debunks it in real time.

Video # 2 from Navigating Digital Informaton Crash Course (13:54)

These modules were created by librarians at Piedmont Virginia Community College to support faculty who wish to integrate media literacy into their courses, regardless of discipline.

In 10 episodes, John Green will teach you how to navigate the internet! We’ve partnered with MediaWise, The Poynter Institute, and The Stanford History Education Group to develop this curriculum of hands-on skills to help you evaluate the information you read online. By the end of this course, you will be able to:
* Examine information using the same skills and questions as fact-checkers
* Read laterally to learn more about the authority and perspective of sources
* Evaluate different types of evidence, from videos to infographics

Caulfield, M. Infodemic. Sifting through the Pandemic. Short public mini-course in applying the SIFT method to COVID-19 misinformation. Initially created in February 2020 as part of subgrant with the National Writing Project to bring a current issue into high school classrooms for student fact-checking, the site has received favorable mentions from Politifact and the New York Times. Released February 2020.

The purpose of “Two Truths and a Lie Online” is to teach you how to critically evaluate online resources so that you can be both an informed consumer and producer of digital content. You are welcome to use and modify the content here for non-commercial use, provided you credit the lesson author, and link to the course or specific lessons you are using on our StoryToGo Classroom site.

This interactive page uses David McCandless' design model from his data visualization website, Information is Beautiful. It presents the "World's most contagious falsehoods" and can be arranged by category. Visual bubbles link to the science debunking the myth.

OSoMe (awe•some) is a joint project of the Network Science Institute (IUNI), the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research (CNetS) at SICE, and the Media School at Indiana University. It can create visualizations of the spread of misinformation on Twitter.

From the Films on Demand database; STLCC login required. Description:While their motives aren’t always evil, people who bend the truth don’t usually do so for the greater good, either. The online world is no exception—in fact, it’s a paradise for purveyors of hype, pseudo-journalism, and intellectual snake oil. This video explores ways to identify bias and propaganda on the Internet and sift through the various influences, such as political or corporate interests, that may be behind web content.

Ted Talk by Sinan Aral, 2018. A little over 14 minutes.

Films on Demand (FOD) video. Requires login from off campus locations.

OSoMe (awe•some) is a joint project of the Network Science Institute (IUNI), the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research (CNetS) at SICE, and the Media School at Indiana University. OSoMe unites data scientists and journalists in studying the role of media and technology in society, and curbing the spread of misinformation online and the manipulation of social media. Tools, findings, publications, and resources are provided.

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