Fact Checking and Media Literacy

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

• Fake News is a REAL Problem
  A guide from University of Virginia Library.
• 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.
• 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.
• The Center for News Literacy at Stony Brook University offers workshops in news literacy and lesson plans for teachers.