CCAD Packard Library: How to Do Library Research: Evaluate what you find

Evaluating Sources to Find Quality Research

AllSides Media Bias Ratings
Check your news source to see if it skews to the left, right, or center.
Crash Course: Navigating Digital Information
Playlist of 11 videos on evaluating online resources.
Factcheck.org
A nonpartisan, nonprofit “consumer advocate” for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics.
Snopes.com
Useful and accurate fact-checking site. Each item investigated includes the claim and verdict at the beginning (false, unproven, true) as well as the origin of the claim.
Who Is
Want to know who is publishing a website? Look it up on WhoIs!

Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers...and other people who care about facts
A web-book on how students can use the same techniques fact-checkers use to evaluate sources on the internet.