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1. Verify an unlikely story.
Hoax Alert | Lead Stories: Fact checking website debunking the latest false, inaccurate or misleading stories making the rounds
Snopes: Reference source for political and other news stories, urban legends, rumors, and misinformation.
Verify: A local fact checking resource from Boise's KTVB Channel 7
2. Report disinformation and false accounts on social media.
3. Take the Pro-Truth Pledge!
The tools to help us wade through the information muck out there are as many and varied as the reasons we fall prey to false narratives. This page offers a curated collection to help us, from fact checking websites to apps to educational resources. Most of all we need to motivate ourselves and our neighbors to better understand the part we play in the problem and the means to solve it. We can do it together!
Harmony Square Game - designed to expose the tactics and manipulation techniques that bad actors use to mislead their audience. Developed by researchers at the Cambridge Social Decision Lab
Bad News Game - see how fast you can spread fake news. Also developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge
GeoGuesser - provides good practice in recognizing misused images.
Spot the Troll - A game developed at the Clemson University Media Forensics Hub to help practice spotting fake media accounts.
Use widgets, apps and other tools such as:
The MIT Media Lab has a super overview of how to detect deepfakes that includes a link to test your skills. Highly recommended! Here's another overview of how to spot manipulated images from the German news organization, Deutsche Welle. This resource also provides an opportunity to test your skills at spotting manipulated images at Which Face is Real?
Additional tools to help us in this effort include:
Disinfo Squad Handbook, by Elizabeth Ramsey, Boise State University
News Literacy and Democracy by Seth Ashley, Boise State University
The Debunking Handbook, by Stephan Lewandowsky, et al.