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Primary Navigation Want to create or adapt books like this? Learn more about how Pressbooks supports open publishing practices. Book Contents Navigation Web Literacy for Student Fact Checkers Acknowledgments 1. Four Moves 2. Building a Fact-Checking Habit by Checking Your Emotions 3. Why This Book? 4. Wikipedia 5. Fact-checking Sites 6. How to Use Previous Work 7. Activity: Spot Sponsored Content 8. Filtering by Time and Place to Find the Original 9. Using Google Reverse Image Search 10. Tracking the Source of Viral Photos 11. Tracking the Source of Viral Content 12. Understanding Syndication 13. Go Upstream to Find the Source 14. Identifying Sponsored Content 15. Activity: Trace Viral Photos Upstream 16. Activity: Expert or Crank? 17. Basic Techniques: Domain Searches, WHOIS 18. Activity: Evaluate a Site 19. Activity: Find Top Authorities for a Subject 20. What Makes a Trustworthy News Source? 21. What “Reading Laterally” Means 22. National Newspapers of Record 23. Evaluating News Sources 24. Choosing Your Experts First 25. Finding High Quality Secondary Sources 26. How to Think about Research 27. Evaluating a Website or Publication’s Authority 28. Finding a Journal’s Impact Factor 29. Using Google Scholar to Check Author Expertise 31. Activity: Verify a Twitter Account 32. Searching TV Transcripts with the Internet Archive 33. Promoted Tweets 34. Using Google Books to Track Down Quotes 35. Using Buzzsumo to Find Highly Viral Stories 36. Citation Rates 37. Understanding Astroturf 38. Finding Old Newspaper Articles 39. Using the Facebook Live Map to Find Breaking Coverage 40. Treating Google’s “Snippets” with Suspicion 41. Avoiding Confirmation Bias in Searches 42. Finding Out When a Page Was Published Using Google 43. Finding Out Who Owns a Domain 44. Using the Wayback Machine to Check for Page Changes 45. Verifying Twitter Identity 46. “Go Upstream to Find the Source” Image Descriptions 47. “Fact-Checking Sites” Image Descriptions 48. “How to Use Previous Work” Image Descriptions 49. Image Descriptions Appendix How DigiPo Defines a “Fact” If there is break Previous/next navigation Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers Copyright © 2017 by Michael A. Caulfield is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.