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.
Emergency-account correction case tracing a lookalike profile, false evacuation claim, unsafe link, newsroom alert error, public repair, and prevention controls.
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Flood video correction case tracing an old clip through reposts, geolocation, shadow and construction clues, source contact, publication repair, and prevention.
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Circular citation correction case showing how one unsupported claim spread across reports, passed weak checks, and required a transparent article-wide repair.
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Science and health reporting problems explained, including causal overreach, relative-risk framing, surrogate outcomes, product status, and image claims.
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Statistics and chart reporting problems explained, from missing denominators and uncertain estimates to distorted axes, weak poll questions, and false causal claims.
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Social verification problems with fixes for badge trust, copied posts, hacked accounts, screenshots, unsafe links, engagement counts, and amplification.
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Visual verification problems with fixes for old media, screenshots, metadata trust, weak geolocation, detector scores, missing context, and unsafe publication.
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Source-evaluation mistakes with fixes for surface trust, authority mismatch, circular citations, weak corroboration, bad search habits, and overstated conclusions.
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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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Guides
Image and video verification guide for preserving files, tracing origins, checking location and time, assessing edits, protecting sources, and stating limits.
Guides
Science and health news verification guide covering research questions, study design, outcomes, risk, causation, conflicts, regulatory status, and corrections.
Guides
Social post verification guide for account identity, original uploads, claim evidence, repost chains, coordination, platform labels, safety, and corrections.
Guides
Source evaluation guide for separating claims, finding original evidence, testing authority and independence, recording limits, and writing accurate conclusions.
Guides
Statistics verification guide for definitions, source data, populations, denominators, calculations, uncertainty, comparisons, charts, language, and corrections.
Features
Emergency-account correction case tracing a lookalike profile, false evacuation claim, unsafe link, newsroom alert error, public repair, and prevention controls.
Features
Flood video correction case tracing an old clip through reposts, geolocation, shadow and construction clues, source contact, publication repair, and prevention.
Features
Circular citation correction case showing how one unsupported claim spread across reports, passed weak checks, and required a transparent article-wide repair.
Rules
Science and health reporting problems explained, including causal overreach, relative-risk framing, surrogate outcomes, product status, and image claims.
