Part I. Four Strategies and a Habit -- 1. Why This Book? -- 2. Four Strategies -- 3. Building a Fact-Checking Habit by Checking Your Emotions -- Part II. Look for Previous Work -- 4. How to Use Previous Work -- 5. Fact-checking Sites -- 6. Wikipedia -- Part III. Go Upstream -- 7. Go Upstream to Find the Source -- 8. Identifying Sponsored Content -- 9. Activity: Spot Sponsored Content -- 10. Understanding Syndication -- 11. Tracking the Source of Viral Content -- 12. Tracking the Source of Viral Photos -- 13. Using Google Reverse Image Search -- 14. Filtering by Time and Place to Find the Original -- 15. Activity: Trace Viral Photos Upstream -- Part IV. Read Laterally -- 16. What "Reading Laterally" Means -- 17. Evaluating a Website or Publication's Authority -- 18. Basic Techniques: Domain Searches, WHOIS -- 19. Activity: Evaluate a Site -- 20. Stupid Journal Tricks -- 21. Finding a Journal's Impact Factor -- 22. Using Google Scholar to Check Author Expertise -- 23. How to Think About Research -- 24. Finding High Quality Secondary Sources -- 25. Choosing Your Experts First -- 26. Evaluating News Sources -- 27. National Newspapers of Record -- 28. Activity: Expert or Crank? -- 29. Activity: Find Top Authorities for a Subject -- Part V. Field Guide -- 30. Verifying Twitter Identity -- 31. Activity: Verify a Twitter Account -- 32. Using the Wayback Machine to Check for Page Changes -- 33. Finding Out When a Page Was Published Using Google -- 34. Using Google Books to Track Down Quotes -- 35. Searching TV Transcripts with the Internet Archive -- 36. Using Buzzsumo To Find Highly Viral Stories -- Part VI. Field Guide (Unfinished Articles) -- 37. Unfinished Articles -- 38. Finding Out Who Owns a Server -- 39. Finding Out When a Site Was Launched -- 40. Avoiding Confirmation Bias In Searches -- 41. Finding the Best Possible Opposition -- 42. Advanced Wikipedia -- 43. Promoted Tweets

The web gives us many such strategies and tactics and tools, which, properly used, can get students closer to the truth of a statement or image within seconds. For some reason we have decided not to teach students these specific techniques. As many people have noted, the web is both the largest propaganda machine ever created and the most amazing fact-checking tool ever invented. But if we haven't taught our students those capabilities is it any surprise that propaganda is winning? This is an unabashedly practical guide for the student fact-checker. It supplements generic information literacy with the specific web-based techniques that can get you closer to the truth on the web more quickly.

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In English.

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