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Find the Source of a website - Online verification skills - Video 2: Investigate the source by Mike Caulfield

Do a reverse image search to check the authenticity of an image: Fact-Checking Tools — Video 1: Verifying Images and Videos - CIVIX

Search for other articles on the same topic or search for similar information to help evaluate websites - Check Yourself with Lateral Reading: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #3

Online verification skills - Video 1: Introductory video by Mike Caulfield

Fakeout Quiz  

See how you do at determining whether information is true or false.  Are you as good as you think?

(Note: The canonical version of the Check Please Starter Course exists here, which is the version written by Mike Caulfield.)

NYTimes Quiz

Can You Spot the Deceptive Facebook Post?

To learn more about Fake News, see the libguide on that topic.

• Evaluating Resources (UC Berkeley)

  A guide with techniques that help you quickly find what you need to know about web pages and train your mind to think critically, even suspiciously, by asking a series of questions that will help you decide how much a web page is to be trusted.
• Evaluating Information Sources: A Tutorial (Purdue)

  This brief tutorial highlights criteria for evaluating sources and sites on the Internet and Web, and provides example sites for you to apply what you have learned. (Takes about 20 minutes to complete.)