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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. Stupid Journal Tricks
30. 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”
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