Finding Reliable Facts

Bring the road-tested tools of journalism from the newsroom to your own news feed. Create a complete course of material on today’s media literacy essentials or sharpen a specific skill, from finding quality news to reporting it.

A bold digital poster outlines a simple acronym — S.E.E.D. — to help students learn to spot propaganda by recognizing four of its key techniques.

Armed with airbrushes and scalpels, censors routinely tried to erase enemies of Stalin from Soviet history by falsifying photographs.

Students learn a handy acronym to help them remember six key concepts for evaluating information, then test the concepts in teams. (Poster also available for download in French, Japanese, Spanish and Ukrainian.)

In this video, George Washington University professor Michael Freedman explains why anonymous sources are necessary sometimes and the guidelines that govern when and how journalists use them.

This fourth installment of the Great Moon Hoax describes the "discovery" of bat-winged humans living on the moon.

A video and graphic help students tune up their “fairness meters” to detect three key factors that can determine how objective or biased a news story is; then they analyze real-life examples.

A video and graphic introduce four proven strategies students can use to counter their own bias when surfing online or conducting research; then students practice using these strategies when investigating a real-life issue.

Staying fresh and fluent in today’s media landscape isn’t easy. This collection of resources offers tools to tackle eight pressing challenges, from recognizing bias and propaganda to leveraging your role as a media contributor.

Help your students make themselves #propagandaproof! These lesson plans leverage the content from our anti-propaganda project: Disinformation Nation (disinformation-nation.org).

"You may be [a communist] without knowing it!" suggests this pamphlet aimed at interesting readers in the party's actual beliefs, not its public portrayal.

Students answer questions in an informational poster to gauge the value of a news story and decide whether it deserves to be linked, shared or retweeted. (Poster also available for download in Spanish, Japanese and Ukrainian.)

Is it OK to clean up a quote or broadcast unconfirmed information? Students become more critical consumers of news media by examining real-life case studies of journalists striving to be accurate, fair and clear.

A map of the “information universe” helps students learn to define and identify different types of content, from fact-based reports to advertising or satire.

Students learn how a newspaper’s front page or website reflects the interests and values of the community, then work in teams to create their own front page or homepage.

Can you navigate the flurry of fake news and strike a balance between being a cynic and a sucker? Get the tools you need to stay ahead of online tricksters and trolls.

Students explore the basics of media literacy and practice using tools to evaluate the accuracy and reliability of a wide range of sources.

Students apply the “consumer’s questions” for analyzing informaton to a chosen research topic in order to improve their media literacy skills.