Evaluating Websites & Internet Sources

This page provides a list of fact checking tools for verifying information online.

• Snopes 
• Factcheck - Nonpartisan, nonprofit “consumer advocate” for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics.
• Media Bias/Fact Check
• Politifact - from the Poynter Institute
• Scicheck - Focuses exclusively on false and misleading scientific claims that are made by partisans to influence public policy. 
• Whois Search: Domain verification

• Health Fraud Scams From the FDA
• Deceptive Patterns - Deceptive patterns (also known as “dark patterns”) are tricks used in websites and apps that make you do things that you didn't mean to, like buying or signing up for something.