Fact-Checking Your News Sources

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Fact-Checking 

Apply some of the fact-checking strategies we discussed to evaluate & verify your news sources.  

• Be skeptical, not cynical.
• Be picky! You will find thousands of news sources -- use the best source you can find.
• Investigate the source -- who published this story?

Try using Wikipedia or Allsides to learn about the news organization's reputation online.

• Wikipedia Links to an external site. - provides an overview of the news source.
• Allsides Links to an external site. - places news stories on a left, center, right spectrum.
  • Search a story Links to an external site.
  • Search a newspaper Links to an external site.

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