Research Guides: Is it Fake?: Check your own claim!

Practice makes perfect

Use the tips throughout this LibGuide to check your own claim, or use one of the claims listed below for practice. Remember, fake news articles may fall under multiple categories and might even mix in a few facts amid their falsehoods. The information on this page was borrowed, with permission, from KT Lowe, Campus Library of Indiana University East.

Select a claim to examine

Food Babe: How Food Companies Exploit Americans
This article claims that US Consumers ingest chemicals that people in other countries don't.

Things to think about

Other tips for fact checking and avoiding fake news

When you open up a news article in your browser, open a second, empty tab. Use that second window to look up claims, author credentials and organizations that you come across in the article.
Fake news spans across all kinds of media - printed and online articles, podcasts, YouTube videos, radio shows, even still images.
As Mad-Eye Moody said in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, "Constant Vigilance!" Always be ready to fact check.
Even the best researchers will be fooled once in a while. If you find yourself fooled by a fake news story, use your experience as a learning tool.

Is it Fake?: Check your own claim!

Practice makes perfect

Select a claim to examine

Things to think about

Other tips for fact checking and avoiding fake news

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