Research Guides @ Fordham: Fake News: Teaching Tools

COVID-19 Fake News

Lately, there's been a lot of fake news about COVID-19.

Our COVID-19 Research Guide links out to official resources you can trust.

Exploring Misinformation and Critical Media Literacy

In the Event of Moon Disaster
This project, produced by MIT's Center for Advanced Virtuality, includes a deepfake film and resources demonstrating how deepfakes are made and used.
Making Sense of the News: News Literacy Lessons for Digital Citizens
This Coursera course is a collaboration between the University of Hong Kong and the State University of New York.
MediaWell
An initiative of the Social Science Research Council, MediaWell curates course modules on misinformation and disinformation. Topics include Election Interference, How Misinformation Spreads, Regulation and Policy, Credibility and Trust, Algorithms and Automation, and more.
Civic Online Reasoning
Developed by the Stanford History Education Group. Teaches researchers to investigate who is behind the information, what the evidence is, and what other sources say.

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