Online Reference

Here are more resources to help you learn — and teach others — how to be a more accurate judge of news and information.

• Climate Feedback — A Scientific Reference to Reliable Information on Climate Change
  A worldwide network of research scientists sorts fact from fiction in climate change media coverage.
• Fake News is a REAL Problem
  A guide from University of Virginia Library.
• FiveThirtyEight
  FiveThirtyEight uses statistical methods to analyze topics from politics to sports. Includes interactive graphics.
• Great Decisions
  Discuss world affairs with a group via the Foreign Policy Association. Members read about a topic and then meet to discuss it. The site also links to lists of books and films on global issues.
• History Unfolded
  Learn more about how local news reports effect views on history by joining this project of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Collect local news coverage of events surrounding the Holocaust for a national database.
• Information is Beautiful
  Information is Beautiful distills the world’s data into visual graphs and diagrams. Many are interactive.
• MediaWise
  An initiative of the Poynter Institute that teaches people digital literacy skills to spot misinformation and disinformation so they can make decisions based on facts. Lessons for everyone from Gen Z to older adults.
• News and Media Literacy
  Resources to help parents teach media literacy skills to their children, from preschool through teens. From Common Sense Media, an independent, nonprofit organization.
• The Center for News Literacy 
  at Stony Brook University offers workshops in news literacy and lesson plans for teachers.
• Web Literacy for Student Fact Checkers
  A free online book.