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Fake News

Use this research guide to help you identify fake news.

How to Find Reliable News

What to do:

 

1. Read/watch/listen very widely.

2. Some generally reliable sources are (some of which require a subscription): 

3. Recognize that even typically reliable sources, whether mainstream or alternative, corporate or nonprofit, rely on particular media frames to report stories and select stories based on different notions of newsworthiness.

4. Be critical of the sources we share and engage with on social media.

DVC Library Databases

Wire Services & Press Agencies