So you’ve heard a lot about fake news, misinformation, and fact checking. That you need to be a responsible consumer of information, political or otherwise. Political fact-checkers investigate submitted claims from politicians and other sources of authority for accuracy and then write stories about their findings.<\/p>\n
The “big three” non-partisan political fact-checkers\u2014Politifact<\/a>, Factcheck.org<\/a>, and the Washington Post<\/em>‘s Fact Checker<\/a>\u2014came of age in the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections. Along with these other fact-checkers (listed below), several partisan sites exist.<\/p>\n So what do you do when you see a news story you think might be fake? Use one of the above sites or try finding other news articles that present the same ideas. This is called triangulation<\/a>. Triangulation is a social science methodology of verifying information by finding the same information in multiple sources.<\/p>\n Say you figure out you’re reading something fake. What then? Check out this Buzzfeed article<\/a> on reporting fake news and preventing it from spreading on Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So you’ve heard a lot about fake news, misinformation, and fact checking. That you need to be a responsible consumer of information, political or otherwise. Political fact-checkers investigate submitted claims from politicians and other sources of authority for accuracy and … Continue reading \n