Misinformation, Disinformation, and Fact-Checking

An article from FactCheck.org, by Eugene Kiely and Lori Robertson, posted on Nov. 18, 2016.

We are all being exposed to a huge amount of COVID-19 information on a daily basis, and not all of it is reliable. This site features tips from WHO on vetting information and stopping the spread of misinformation.

Project Information Literacy (PIL) is a nonprofit research institute that conducts ongoing, national studies on what it is like being a student in the digital age.

First Draft's mission is to protect communities from harmful misinformation. First Draft works to empower society with the knowledge, understanding, and tools needed to outsmart false and misleading information.

This is an unabashedly practical guide for the student fact-checker. It supplements generic information literacy with the specific web-based techniques that can get you closer to the truth on the web more quickly.

The News Literacy Project, a nonpartisan national education nonprofit, provides programs and resources for educators and the public to teach, learn and share the abilities needed to be smart, active consumers of news and information and equal and engaged participants in a democracy.

For more on the different kinds of fake and unreliable news, take a look at this page from Media Matters.

In this edition of Archive on 4, Phil Tinline mines the archives to trace the story of 'disinformation' - navigating the slippery history of such incidents as the Zinoviev Letter, the Reichstag Fire, the Moscow Trials, the allegations that the US used germ warfare in the Korean War, British operations in Northern Ireland and the CIA's attempt at a pornographic movie.