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Fake News

Resources to help you tell fact from fiction

Stanford University Study on Evaluating Information

In this study, "the Stanford History Education Group has prototyped, field tested, and validated a bank of assessments that tap civic online reasoning--the ability to judge the credibility of information that floods young people's smartphones, tablets, and computers."

Study by Ipsos Public Affairs for BuzzFeed News

 

"The first large-scale public opinion research study into the fake news phenomenon"

Study by the Media Insight Project

"Millennials consume news and information in strikingly different ways than previous generations, and their paths to discovery are more nuanced and varied than some may have imagined, according to the new study by the Media Insight Project, a collaboration of the American Press Institute and the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research."