News Literacy

Discover the three main ways video footage is being altered to spread misinformation and learn how to recognize false or misleading video content.

This website and column is a self-described "truth squad" to analyze political and difficult issues.

An excellent tool for verifying the origins of a photo. Click on the camera icon in the search box to paste the image URL or upload the photo.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning Politifact researches the claims of politicians and checks their accuracy.

Quick tutorial on how to do a reverse image search from The News Literacy Project.

One of the oldest debunking sites on the Internet, Snopes.com focuses on urban legends, news stories and memes. They also cite their sources at the end of each debunking.

Find out who is behind a particular domain or IP address. Great for verifying the person or organization responsible for a website.

Simply copy and paste a URL to find where a photo or video appears online.

Reverse image and video search.

Enter a topic or person to find recent fact-checks from fact-checking sources across the Web.

This browser extension provides ratings of the content on more than 4000 news websites that account for 95% of online engagement with news. See who’s behind each site and whether it has a record of publishing accurate information. Get warnings on new trending misinformation sites as they are flagged and rated by NewsGuard’s 24/7 rapid response SWAT team.

This extension will display a color-coded icon denoting the bias of the page you are currently viewing, created by the Media Bias/Fact Check News organization.