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Resources for Evaluating Information

Resources for Evaluating Information

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This page offers a compilation of resources related to evaluating information. Some are from our own team and others are from reliable sources. We hope you will find many of them to be useful as you hone your own skills or help others build their skills. If you find other useful resources, please reach out using our online form, so that we can evaluate and add them if appropriate.

For your convenience, we have compiled a variety of resources that can help with evaluating information.

Printable resources

Articles

Websites

Fact-checking sites

Scientists addressing misinformation

Other websites with helpful information

Reverse image search tools

Use these tools to see if the image you are viewing was altered:

Mobile apps

Informable mobile App — A free app by the News Literacy Project aims to help players practice differentiating between good and bad information they find online.

Videos

Books

  • Nibbling on Einstein’s Brain: The Good, The Bad & The Bogus in Science by Diane Swanson, 2001
  • Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future by Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum, 2010
  • The Life-Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit by John V. Petrocelli, 2021
  • Web Literacy For Student Fact Checkers by Michael A. Caulfield, 2017

Reviewed February 29, 2024

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