Using Media Literacy to Combat Election Disinformation: Librarian Train-the-Trainer Workshop Resources

If you would like to catch up on past live workshops and panels that Pen America has presented to the public, view the recordings on their project page, Knowing the News.

How to Talk to Friends and Family Who Share Misinformation – PEN America

PEN America’s Guide on COVID-19 and Disinformation

PEN America Reports:

Faking News: Fraudulent News and the Fight for Truth

Truth on the Ballot: Fraudulent News, the Midterm Elections, and Prospects for 2020

Fact-checking resources:

Politifact.com by the Poynter Institute or Washington Post’s Factchecker both fact-check political content.

RevEye Reverse Image Search is a Chrome extension to perform an inverse image search.

FactCheck.org is a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Centerand is non-partisan and monitors for political accuracy.

All Sides offers perspectives on topical news stories from the left, center, and from the right, plus a ‘media bias rating.’

Snopes.com has been around since 1994 and fact-checks internet content.

Duke Reporters’ Lab is a database of both national and global fact-checking resources. 

NewsGuard Coronavirus Misinformation Tracker for COVID-19-specific tracking.

A short news article from Buzzfeed on the various hoaxes and misleading content surrounding the protests.

News Literacy Project’s How News Literate Are You? quiz