Check Your Sources - Help - Environmental Studies - LibGuides at California State University, Fullerton

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Fake News Workshop Slides

Articles/Essays Referred

The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think by Eli Pariser

Fact Checking Websites

Fact Checking Sites

Quick Checking List of Questionable Credible News Sites

Open Sources.co
NOTE: When looking at this list of sites, immediately discount sites listed as fake, unreliable, conspiracy, hate, or junksci. The rest are usually editorial blogs and have some type of bias of which you would then determine if the site treats the subject fairly. If the story from the site is referring to a news story or research report, you would perhaps be better off to first read the original source itself.
FIB
Still in development, an app that will let one know via social media (Facebook, Google, etc.) if a news story has been verified or not. Next version of its Chrome Extension should be up in the near future.

Image Reversal Sites

Copy and paste the URL of the news site's image and see where it originally came from! Make sure you copy the image URL or you can download the image and then upload it into these nifty search engines.

Tin Eye
Google Images
1. Click on the camera icon.
2. Enter URL of image OR press "upload an image" tab.

Environmental Studies: Check Your Sources - Help

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