Evaluating News Sources - Real or Fake?: For Further Reading

Items in this bibliography will help you learn more about fake news and evaluating sources.  All are available in the library - if you have difficulty finding these items, contact the author of this guide or the reference desk.

Beach, Mark. “Fake News, Truth and Trust.” Media Development, vol. 65, no. 1, Jan. 2019, pp. 38–41.

Dizikes, Peter. “Festering Fake News.” USA Today Magazine, vol. 148, no. 2890, July 2019, pp. 32–33.

Greengard, Samuel. “Will Deepfakes Do Deep Damage?” Communications of the ACM, vol. 63, no. 1, Jan. 2020, pp. 17–19.

Harris, Hannah. “The Fake News Police: Who Fact-Checks Facebook’s Fact-Checkers?” World, vol. 34, no. 18, Sept. 2019, pp. 55–57.

Lu, Donna. “The Facts about Facebook’s Fact-Checking.” New Scientist, vol. 243, no. 3241, Aug. 2019, p. 8.

Paulin, Emily. “How to Be a Smart News Consumer.” AARP Bulletin, vol. 61, no. 6, July/Aug. 2020, p. 32.

PEN America.  Faking News: Fraudulent News and the Fight for the Truth. 2017.

PEN America.  Truth on the Ballot: Fraudulent News, the Midterm Elections and Prospects for 2020.  2019.

Schiffrin, Anya. “Disinformation and Democracy: The Internet Transformed Protest but Did Not Improve Democracy.” Journal of International Affairs, vol. 71, no. 1, Fall/Winter2017 2017, pp. 117–25.

Stanford History Education Group. Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Civic Online Reasoning. 2016.

Stengel, Richard. “The Global War on Truth.” TIME Magazine, vol. 194, no. 14, pp. 36-39.

Stover, Dawn. “Garlin Gilchrist: Fighting Fake News and the Information Apocalypse.” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, vol. 74, no. 4, July 2018, pp. 283–88.

Taylor, Emily. “How to Rein in the Web of Lies.” The World Today, vol. 75, no. 3, Jun, 2019, pp. 14-16.

Wineburg, Sam, and Sarah McGrew. Lateral Reading: Reading Less and Learning More When Evaluating Digital Information.  Stanford History Group, 2017.