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EDFL 3240 - Media Bias Assignment

Websites and Organizations for Fact Checking

Allsides
https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-ratings
In addition to identifying the bias of various publications, this site can help you identify your own bias.

Politifact
https://www.politifact.com/
In addition to news, this site covers Facebook hoaxes. They are famous for their “truthometer” ratings which range from “True” to “Pants on Fire”.

Snopes
https://www.snopes.com/
Snopes researches many different types of stories from politics to medicine to determine of the information is accurate or not.

FactCheck.org
https://www.factcheck.org/  
The main focus on this site is politics but it also addresses problems with Facebook, health, TV ad special interest groups, internet rumors, etc.

Washington Post Fact Checker
www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/
Analyses truth (or not) of various current news stories.

Hoax-Slayer
https://www.hoax-slayer.net/
“Hoax-Slayer is an Australian site which “debunks email and social media hoaxes, thwarts Internet scammers, combats spam, and educates web users…”

 

Media Bias Chart - Vanessa Otero

Vanessa Otero's chart not only shows the left right position of the publication but it also indicates if the reporting is accurate of misleading.