#fact-checking websites

[intelligentchristianlady]

PSA: Check, please

Before you post, or share, or reblog, or even like, check, please. Use your common sense.

What is the source? “Online” is not a source. “I heard” is not a source.

Is the info limited to just one website?

Is the headline sensational? Does the post ask you to join, donate, share, or click a link?

What an amazing photo? Do a reverse-image search.

Here is a list of fact-checking sites. If they all agree that the info is false, it just might be false.

politifact.com

factcheck.org

snopes.com

leadstories.com

checkyourfact.com

washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker

poynter.org/coronavirusfactsalliance

[filosofablogger]

Is it True???

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