Skip to Main Content

Misinformation, Disinformation, and Propaganda: Unreliable News Content

"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts." --Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Newsweek, 25 August 1986, p. 27.

Resources

Media Evaluation Resources

Biweekly updates and stories about disinformation issues worldwide.

A curriculum for teaching and learning how to evaluate online information from Stanford University.

Produced by the European Journalism Centre. Available in several languages.

Guide to the media landscape in most European countries and numerous other countries worldwide.

One of 97 sets of online curricular materials on this site on the topic of propaganda.

By Mathias Osmundsen, Michael Bang Petersen, and Alexander Bor.

Tech Stream.

Washington: The Brookings Institution, 13 May 2021.

From the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security.

PDF version.

"IREX’s Learn to Discern approach builds resilience to manipulative information by empowering those who engage with media and information to navigate it in a safe, critical, responsible, healthy, and empathy-driven way." -- from the home page

How to recognize and deal with misinformation and disinformation. From security.org.

1st edition, 2015.

CSU Stanislaus community only.

The Library funds online access to this ebook.

A nonpartisan journalism site that sponsors the PolitiFact fact-checking team, the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), and much more.

Published online by PressBooks in 2017 under a Creative Commons license.

"AI-generated fake videos are becoming more common (and convincing). Here’s why we should be worried." Ian Sample. The Guardian, 13 January 2020.

Annual ranking by country of the status of freedom of the press.

Additional resources

Fact-checking news sources

The resources below provide fact-checking to assess the truth of claims made in political statements, social media posts, and news coverage.