Fake News: Further Reading

Times reporters will chronicle and debunk false and misleading information that is going viral online. Updated daily.

The News Literacy Project is a nonpartisan national education nonprofit that provides programs and resources for educators and the public to teach, learn and share the skills needed to be smart, active consumers of news and information and equal and engaged participants in a democracy.

The Center for News Literacy at Stony Brook University is committed to teaching students how to use critical thinking skills to judge the reliability and credibility of news reports and news sources. It is the only center of its kind in the United States.

Benedict Carey, The New York Times

Hunt Alcott and Michael Genzcow, Journal of Economic Perspectives.

Brendan Nyhan, Andrew Guess, and Jason Reifler. Nature Human Behavior (forthcoming).

From Harvard's Nieman Lab, a weekly roundup of the "growing stream of reporting on and data about fake news, misinformation, partisan content, and news literacy."

First Draft – a project of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government – uses research-based methods to fight mis- and disinformation online. Additionally, it provides practical and ethical guidance in how to find, verify and publish content sourced from the social web.