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New guide to Fake News provides useful tools for fact checkers

by Laura Landon on 2017-03-24T10:37:58-03:00 | 0 Comments

Fake news is everywhere. A new library web guide can help people identify, analyze and debunk it. The guide features fact-checking information, links to fake-news detectors, a list of known fake news sites, and other useful tools.

The guide was developed alongside Fighting Fake News: Tips for Aspiring Truth Detectives, a presentation delivered in Sackville and Fredericton by Librarian Jeff Lilburn and Sociology Professor Erin Steuter in 2017.

Image: Snopes' Field Guide to Fake News Sites & Hoax Purveyors

The presentation covered current examples of fake news, why it is on the rise, and how it has political consequences. It also provided an overview of tools people can use to identify and deconstruct fake news. This guide, prepared by presenter Jeff Lilburn, includes many of the resources discussed in the presentation. 

The CRAAP Test, for example, presents a list of questions designed to help evaluate information for currency, relevance, authority, accuracy and purpose. Other useful tools include the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, which allows users to compare facts or analysis available on a website today compared to information available on that same site in past months or years. Wolfram Alpha, a "computational knowledge engine", can -- among other things -- help users find facts about past weather for a given place and date, something Lilburn notes can be helpful when trying to determine the veracity of claims made about a photograph.

Find these links and much more in librarian Jeff Lilburn's Fake News Guide.

 

 

 


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