Research Guides
Fake News And Misinformation: Articles, Projects, Studies, & Reports
Articles and Blog Posts
- 5 Useful Tools to Help You Spot Fake NewsMakeTechEasier RSS Feed, Andrew Braun, 17 May 2018.
- How misinformation spreads on social media—And what to do about itChris Meserole, May 9, 2018. Brookings Institution.
- Wikipedia Founder Says Internet Users Are Adrift In The 'Fake News' EraApril 27, 2018. NPR, Article and Podcast on All Things Considered
- Alternative Facts and Fake News – Verifiability in the Information SocietyThe International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) Blog
- A Brief History of Fake News How spoofers and trollers learned to monetize gullibilityBy Willaim Poundstone, posted Nov 22, 2016 in Psychology Today
- A Brief History of How Fake News Spreads So Easily on FacebookBy I. Oh and K. Vongkiatkajorn, posted Nov. 22, 2016 in Mother Jones. Presents a timeline of the key moments leading to the spreading of fake news on Facebook.
- Fake or real? How to self-check the news and get the factsMPRNews, Dec 5, 2016
- How to tell fake news from real newsTED Ed Blog: Lessons Worth Sharing
- How “News Literacy” Gets the Web Wrong, Mike CaulfiedHAPGOOD blog. Mike Caulfield's latest web incarnation. Networked Learning, Open Education, and the Wiki Way.
- The Science of Fake NewsScience 09 Mar 2018: Vol. 359, Issue 6380, pp. 1094-1096.
DOI: 10.1126/science.aao2998 - William Shatner’s Tweets Are a Classic Case of MisinformationBy Alan Levinovitz, Slate.com
Projects, Studies, and Reports
While much has been written about fake news, scholars have published a limited amount of peer-reviewed research on the topic. Journalist's Resource has compiled studies that examine fake news and the spread of misinformation more broadly to help journalists better understand the problem and its impacts.
- Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Civic Reasoning, Nov. 2016It’s not always easy to tell fake news from real news. A recent Stanford University study concluded that many middle school, high school and college students cannot distinguish the two from one another. In a series of 56 exercises, the study’s lead researchers concluded that information literacy needs to be added to classroom curricula at all levels of education. Students were unable to tell the difference between ads and real news articles, nor were they always able to detect bias.
- Fake news and the spread of misinformation, a list of peer-reviewed studiesFrom Journalist’s Resource, a project of the Harvard Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center and the Carnegie-Knight Initiative; an open-access site that curates scholarly studies and reports.
- The Trust ProjectA nonpartisan effort called The Trust Project is working to address this situation by helping online users distinguish between reliable journalism and promotional content or misinformation. The Trust Project has released eight Trust Indicators created by leaders from over 75 news organizations that will offer additional transparency about an organization’s ethics and practices.
- "A Discipline-Based Approach to Information Literacy."This article, which proposes a discipline-based approach to teaching information literacy, argues that the responsibility for teaching information literacy should be shared throughout an academic institution, rather than limited to the library. An outline of the complementary responsibilities of librarians and classroom faculty in teaching information literacy is presented.
Commentary
- The Post-Truth IssueCommentary articles published in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
"Post-truth—adjective; relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief."(Oxford Dictionary). - When Truth Becomes a CommodityAn essay from the Chronicle of Higher Education, written by Daniel T. Rogers, emeritus professor of history at Princeton University
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