Interesting articles concerning fake news

• Fact or fiction? How to check the news.

• A finder's guide to facts.

• Why 80 per cent of young people in this Macedonian town have turned to posting ‘fake news’.

• Why Do Hoax Videos Proliferate When Disaster Strikes?

• How to spot fake news.

• 8 things students should know about the new media literacy 

Useful resources

• Tools for spotting fake news

• https://fullfact.org for separating fact from fiction (UK-centred) and…

• … https://fullfact.org/toolkit/#factchecking-the-internet for very useful set of how-to articles about to detect fake images, headlines and other aspects of news.

• https://mediabiasfactcheck.com for checking the mainstream media for left- or right-wing bias, conspiracy theory peddlers, or satire.

• https://www.factcheck.org/the-factcheck-wire/ for examining the truth behind the headlines (very US-centric)

• A generic activity for teaching about fake news - a hand-drawn infographic from me. Why not use this in conjunction with Danny Nicholson's fake websites collection (below)?

• Look out for my fake news lesson plan, and a book review about fake news, in the October issue of Teach Secondary (out around 18 October 2019). 

• Reading like a historian.

• Newsguard is a website evaluation scheme that helps you decide whether or not a website is trustworthy as far as news reporting is concerned. See my review below.

• Newswise is a free cross-curricular news literacy project for 9-11 year-olds. See Danny Nicholson's article: Become fake news detectives with Newswise.

• Also from Danny Nicholson: test your students' critical literacy skills with these fake websites.

• Here's an online game/simulation to demonstrate how misinformation spreads on the internet. Contrary to what you might think, it does not require a majority verdict so to speak: Crowds.