News literacy in practice: verifying a claim, reading a source, spotting a manipulated image, and knowing when the honest answer is that nobody knows yet.
Source-evaluation mistakes with fixes for surface trust, authority mismatch, circular citations, weak corroboration, bad search habits, and overstated conclusions.
Standards Desk · 4 min read · Read →
Account and viral-claim checklist for preservation, identity, control, badges, origin, reposts, links, evidence, coordination, safety, publication, and correction.
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Poll audit workflow for sponsor, population, sample, recruitment, fieldwork, questions, weighting, uncertainty, subgroup comparisons, headlines, and corrections.
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Account and viral-post verification workflow for confirming identity, tracing origin, checking links and claims, contacting owners, and reporting safely.
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Online source verification workflow for preserving a page, identifying its publisher, reading laterally, tracing evidence, comparing reports, and recording limits.
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Evidence source types compared by proximity, scope, independence, strengths, limits, and best uses for checking events, numbers, causes, and quotations.
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Visual geolocation and chronolocation workflow using source history, landmarks, maps, weather, shadows, event records, uncertainty ranges, and peer review.
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Health research evidence types compared across laboratory work, case reports, observational studies, trials, qualitative research, and systematic reviews.
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Clinical study audit workflow for finding protocols, reading outcomes, checking enrollment and analysis, calculating risk, verifying status, and qualifying claims.
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Image and video verification checklist for preservation, source identity, origin, metadata, location, time, editing, provenance, safety, credit, and publication.
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Image and video verification guide for preserving files, tracing origins, checking location and time, assessing edits, protecting sources, and stating limits.
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Science and health news verification guide covering research questions, study design, outcomes, risk, causation, conflicts, regulatory status, and corrections.
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Science and health verification checklist for study identity, design, outcomes, statistics, risk, harms, conflicts, product status, expert review, and corrections.
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Social account identity signals compared across badges, profile labels, official links, history, direct confirmation, posting patterns, and platform limits.
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Social post verification guide for account identity, original uploads, claim evidence, repost chains, coordination, platform labels, safety, and corrections.
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Source and claim verification checklist for scope, origin, authority, evidence, independence, quotations, numbers, conflicts, response, wording, and corrections.
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Source evaluation guide for separating claims, finding original evidence, testing authority and independence, recording limits, and writing accurate conclusions.
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Statistical measures compared across counts, proportions, percentages, rates, ratios, indexes, means, medians, change measures, and seasonal adjustment.
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Statistics and chart checklist for provenance, definitions, data quality, denominators, calculations, uncertainty, comparisons, axes, labels, review, and correction.
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Statistics verification guide for definitions, source data, populations, denominators, calculations, uncertainty, comparisons, charts, language, and corrections.
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Visual verification methods compared across reverse search, source interviews, metadata, geolocation, chronolocation, provenance, and forensic analysis.
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