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Introduction
Web Literacy for Student Fact Checkers
Two Strategies and a Habit
Acknowledgements
1. Chapter 1
2. The Strategies
3. Go Upstream
4. Why This Book?
5. Four Strategies
6. Building a Fact-Checking Habit by Checking Your Emotions
7. Using Google Reverse Search from Chrome
8. Go Upstream to Find the Source
9. Identifying Sponsored Content
10. Activity: Spot Sponsored Content
11. Understanding Syndication
12. Tracking the Source of Viral Content
13. Tracking the Source of Viral Photos
14. Using Google Reverse Image Search
15. Filtering by Time and Place to Find the Original
16. Activity: Trace Viral Photos Upstream
17. How to Use Previous Work
18. Fact-checking Sites
19. Wikipedia
20. What "Reading Laterally" Means
21. Evaluating a Website or Publication's Authority
22. Basic Techniques: Domain Searches, WHOIS
23. Activity: Evaluate a Site
24. Stupid Journal Tricks
25. Finding a Journal's Impact Factor
26. Using Google Scholar to Check Author Expertise
27. How to Think About Research
28. Finding High Quality Secondary Sources
29. Choosing Your Experts First
30. Evaluating News Sources
31. Field Guide (Unfinished Articles)
32. National Newspapers of Record
33. Unfinished Articles
34. Verifying Twitter Identity
35. Using the Wayback Machine to Check for Changes
36. Finding Out When a Page Was Published
37. Finding Out Who Owns a Server
38. Finding Out When a Site Was Launched
39. Avoiding Confirmation Bias In Searches
40. Finding the Best Possible Opposition
41. Working With Printed Books
42. Advanced Wikipedia
Appendix
How DigiPo Defines a "Fact"
Checking Twitter Identities
The words you use can predispose you to certain results.
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