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Excellent introduction to 4 quick moves to becoming your own fact checker

How to ‘trade up’ to better sources when information reaches us from low-quality or unfamiliar places.

Dedicated to fact-checking news and social media postings. Rates each on a scale from false to true based on demonstrated facts.

Their focus is on being a "consumer advocate for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics."

Long-standing site dedicated to "discerning what is true and what is total nonsense". Find everything from news articles to social media posts to spam emails in their extensive collection of fact-checked articles.

AllSides gathers news from many sources, with contexual information about possible bias. They aim for diversity of perspectives and promote conversation.

Non-profit website which "examines claims about the black community in public debate."

This highly-regarded site invites scientists who have a PhD and at least one published article on climate change to comment on the accuracy of published content like news articles and documentaries.

Companion site to FactCheck.org, this site focuses on identifying "false and misleading scientific claims made by partisans to influence public policy."

This is a fun project by an individual research, who tries to track down the actual origins of famous, or famously misattributed quotes.

Provides a method for assessing and locating accurate information online. May require logging in with your k number and password.

A free self-directed course from the Poynter Institute's "News University". Designed for college students as a self-directed course or as a resource for classroom instructors, the approximately 90-minute course includes lessons on identifying reliable sources in fact-checking, debunking viral misinformation, and deciding whether a statement is really checkable.