Guides: Fake News, Misinformation, and Pseudoscience: Databases, Journals, and Articles

Getting Some Background

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Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types.
Newspaper Source Plus This link opens in a new window
Selected full text coverage for 245 newspapers, newswires and other sources.
Historic New York Times This link opens in a new window
Historic New York Times Newspaper collection, 1851 to 2010.

3 Tips for Avoiding Fake News in Science
Appearance, obviousness, and provenance are important factors in distinguishing genuine science from fake.
Calling BS: Data Reasoning in a Digital World
Two faculty members declare "the world is awash in BS" and teach a course in how to identify it, analyze it, and counter it effectively.
Democracy Needs You: How to Avoid Fake News
The Huffington Post suggests checking author, publisher, financing, audience, writing, date, sources, and credibility of content.
A Finder's Guide to Facts
NPR recommends making sure headline and article match, quotes are in context, the article refers to the present, the enemy is not generic, and that the source of the news can be identified.
How to Avoid Falling for Lies and Fake News
The BBC offers some suggestions for how to keep from being deluded by misinformation.
How to Avoid Getting Conned by Fake News Sites.
CNET explans how to identify and flag fake news sites.
Stanford Researchers Find Students Have Trouble Judging Credibility of Information Online
Digitally savvy students cannot distinguish advertising from news and are unable to determine whether the source of the news is credible.
What is Fake News? How You Can Spot It and What You Can Do to Stop It
The Guardian suggest the growing importance of social media is to blame, that many students cannot distinguish real from fake, and that we can take steps to keep it from spreading.

FactCheck
Nonpartisan site for checking claims related to political facts.
Politifact
Pulitzer Prize-winning site used by journalists to check on facts in the world of politics and politicians.
Snopes
Independent site useful for checking the veracity of urban legends, rumors, and hearsay.
Truth or Fiction
A site devoted to uncovering the truth about rumors, hoaxes and urban legends.

Deepfakes and the New AI-Generated Fake Media Creation-Detection Arms Race
An article from Scientific American in which a researcher states that deepfake videos and imagery are getting more sophisticated but so is the technology used to detect them.