Below you will find: A list of Online watchdog sites and fact-checking sites that tend to supply reliable information when you are conducting research on the greater Web.
Why?
Well: Before we send anyone out into the Online world and arm them with reasons (good reasons!) why they should beware of fakes, forgeries, and general nastiness at every turn, we ought to share with them what’s good.
No ONE site Online is perfect. That said, I try to keep a NiLi (A “Nice” List) of sites. You should, too. NiLi sites are places that, when I land on them, I am generally able to breath a sigh of relief. Sites that I am happy to find in my search-result feed.
I add and subtract to this list — and you should, too. I won’t put them all in this one post, just the ones I call the “watchdogs”: These sites check for fakes, dupes, and other sculduggery on the regular.
My current NiLi (Nice List) of Watchdogs:
- https://www.snopes.com SNOPES.COM
- https://www.politifact.com/ POLITIFACT.COM
- https://www.factcheck.org/ FACTCHECK.ORG
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/ FACTCHECKER WASHINGTON POST
- https://apnews.com/hub/ap-fact-check AP FACT CHECK
https://apnews.com/article/ap-fact-check-234264975049 More on AP fact checks
- https://www.reuters.com/fact-check Reuters FACT CHECK
- https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/ MEDIA BIAS Fact Check
- https://leadstories.com/ LEAD STORIES.com
- https://www.bbc.com/news/reality_check BBC NEWS REALITY CHECK
