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Evaluating News: Know Your News

This LibGuide was created to help you evaluate the news around you, teach you to identify Fake News, Bias News, Satirical News, and Propaganda

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This Guide was designed by USC Upstate librarian Laura Karas to help you become aware of the news around you.  It is a curated collection of definitions, examples, videos, tools for identification, articles, and links from academic libraries discussing Fake News, Bias News, Satirical News, and Propaganda.

Know different types of misleading and false news

News Types - Fake News by LKaras Work

Taylor, Colin. "Here's how to outsmart fake news in your Facebook feed." CNN. Cable News Network, 27 Apr. 2016. Web. 23 Jan. 2017.

"Understanding The Fake News Universe." Media Matters for America. N.p., 14 Dec. 2016. Web. 02 Feb. 2017.

Malcom X Quote by LKaras Work

“Malcom X Quotes (Author of How to Have a Personal Transformation in Your Life - Ebok).” Goodreads, Goodreads, www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/13542490.Malcom_X.

Beyond Fake News infographic identifies the 10 types of potentially misleading news.

see pdf below

“How To Spot Fake News.” IFLA, The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2 Feb. 2021, www.ifla.org/publications/node/11174.