Internet News, Fact-Checking, & Critical Thinking

From the New York Times.

Project Information Literacy, Smart Talk Interview, no. 27 (21 February 2017)

subtitle: How the unsolved murder of Seth Rich has become a case study of how and why fake news endures. From the NYTimes "The Daily" podcast, May 25, 2017.

From the NYTimes website.

From Rolling Stone Magazine. "Inside the web of conspiracy theorists, Russian operatives, Trump campaigners and Twitter bots who manufactured the ‘news’ that Hillary Clinton ran a pizza-restaurant child-sex ring"

From the NYTimes. Read about how one recent college grad made money creating fake news.

From snopes.com

From California State University, Long Beach library.

Fun game to test your "news sense". Can you spot fake news from real news? Swipe left for fake or right for real. By JoLT and AU Game Lab.

From PunditFact / PolitiFact. Take the quiz to see questions to ask yourself and tips to think about when evaluating sources of news on the web.