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#14: skepticism is a weapon and a quality

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Please feel free to use and share all or part of the CUNY J-School Research Center’s LibGuide for Reporters on Fact Checking, Verification & Fake News. Tabs include:

• Checklists and Lesson Plans to Help Identify Fake News (like TEN QUESTIONS FOR NEWS DETECTION, from the News Literacy Project)
• Fake News Sites
• Fake News Facts
• Pop Your Filter Bubble
• Tech Solutions to Fake News
• How Journalists Can Thwart Fake News

This fact-checking guide includes an Accuracy Checklist for Reporters and the Fake News portion of the guide includes a pdf of a long-form infographic Fake News Cheat Sheet, which can also be viewed in presentation format.

Find More Tools and other hardtruths:

#100hardtruths-#fakenews: a primer on digital media literacy

To see a poetic response to this hardtruth:

"These Bitter Lies" By Olympia Miccio

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Skepticism is a Weapon