Information Literacy: Fact-Checking Sites and Current Articles

Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr, a long-time critic of President Trump, said the invasion of the Capitol was “a pretty clear reminder that the truth matters.”

Six false claims about the November election and challenges to it are analyzed by the New York Times.

From the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

Operated by one of the least-biased news organizations, the AP.

A project of The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania

Operated by the Poynter Institute, a nonprofit organization founded by Florida publisher Nelson Poynter in 1975.

Since 1994 when it began investigating so-called "urban legends," Snopes now covers all kinds of assertions claiming to be facts. Some are; many are not.

Both local and national news sources are evaluated for bias at this site.

Although Ad Fontes is operated by one person, MediaBiasFact check rates this site "least biased" and highly factual.

This site republishes articles from left, center, and right about current topics.

How to think about the split in U.S. political reality: a survey of opinion experts, from The Guardian.

"It pays to believe obviously untrue things," by science writerTom Chivers in Unherd.com. Chivers cites the work of several authors, including Kevin Simler, Steven Pinker, and Tim Harford,

an article from the UK Guardian which quotes the WHO Director-General: “We’re not just fighting an epidemic; we’re fighting an infodemic. Fake news spreads faster and more easily than this virus, and is just as dangerous....we are headed down a dark path that leads nowhere but division and disharmony.”