News Experts, News Literacy, and News Diets

One of the major fact-checking sites on the web since 1994. The site started with a focus on urban legends and has expanded its scope to include a wide range of myths and misinformation. Here's a note about the site's methodology.

Started as an election-year project by the Tampa Bay Times, politifact.com has become one of the major players in fact-checking politicians, political journalism, and political discourse. "Our core principles are independence, transparency, fairness, thorough reporting and clear writing. The reason we publish is to give citizens the information they need to govern themselves in a democracy." Politifact is now owned by the Poynter Institute.

"Consumer advocate for voters" website. "We monitor the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews and news releases." From the Annenberg Public Policy Center.

Exhaustive resource on fact-checking on the fly and in emergency situations from the European Journalism Centre.

Six key takeaways:
• Put a plan and procedures in place before disasters and breaking news occurs.
• Develop human sources.
• Contact people. Talk to them.
• Be skeptical when something looks, sounds or seems too good to be true.
• Consult credible sources.
• Familiarize yourself with search and research methods, and new tools.
• Communicate and work together with other professionals.

From the Poynter Institute. "We collect (and briefly explain) major studies on fact-checking, fake news and misinformation."

"The Hoaxy corpus tracks the social sharing of links to stories published by two types of websites: (1) Low-credibility sources that often publish inaccurate, unverified, or satirical claims according to lists compiled and published by reputable news and fact-checking organizations. (2) Independent fact-checking organizations, such as snopes.com, politifact.com, and factcheck.org, that routinely fact check unverified claims." Joint project of the Indiana University Network Science Institute (IUNI) and the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research (CNetS).

Conservative/right-sprectrum fact-checking run by the Media Research Center, with the stated mission to "expose and neutralize the propaganda arm of the Left: the national news media."

"Progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media."