15 Tools for Spotting Fake News
/Tools for Spotting Fake News:
Producer of The Media Bias Chart® which rates media sources in terms of political bias and reliability.
Investigative search network for citizen journalists using open-source information such as videos, maps and pictures.
Suggests whether a Twitter account is likely to be a bot.
Checks the activity of a Twitter account and gives it a score based on how likely the account is to be a bot.
This Facebook Messenger chatbot aimed at delivering fact checks.
Check the history of a photo: When it was first used and where.
Visualizes the spread of articles across social media.
Helps Twitter users determine if an account is a bot.
This Facebook Messenger app identifies the political leaning of an article.
Steven Brill’s site that uses trained journalists to rate news items and information sites. Produces an email newsletter that tracks misinformation.
A Chrome reverse image search engine add-on.
This tool is designed to spot fake human faces in pictures and videos. Engineers say they trained detectors using 100s of thousands of deepfake videos and GAN-generated images. Free.
A reverse image search engine to help determine when an image first appeared on the internet. A free extension for Chrome and Firefox browsers.
A Google Chrome plugin that attempts to identify whether a website is generally trustworthy.
This website focuses on hoaxes, rumors and odd news.