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Misinformation and Disinformation: Thinking Critically about Information Sources

This Research Guide is adapted from a guide developed by the Research Center at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism

More Checklists & Lesson Plans for Identifying Fake News

More Great Resources

This LibGuide was inspired by these excellent works:

False, Misleading, Clickbait-y, and/or Satirical “News” Sources, Melissa “Mish” Zimdars, Assistant Professor of Communication, Merrimack College

Fake News: How to identify and avoid fake news, by the Campus Library, Indiana University East

Blur: How to Know What's True in the Age if Information Overload, by Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenthiel

Overcoming Bias: A Journalist's Guide to Culture & Context by Sue Ellen Christian

Information Literacy and Fake News, ACRLog guest post from Radford University.

List of Predatory Publishers

"No More 'Beall's List' Librarian removes controversial list of "predatory" journals and publishers, reportedly in response to
"threats and politics," from www.insidehighered.com, January 18, 2017

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/01/18/librarians-list-predatory-journals-reportedly-removed-due-threats-and-politics

"Mystery as controversial list of predatory publishers disappears," from science.org, Jan. 17, 2017

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/01/mystery-controversial-list-predatory-publishers-disappears[sciencemag.org]