Misinformation and the Media: Good Information Hygiene

We can all make healthier choices about the information we consume, share and act on. When we do, we help stop the spread of misinformation. But can you tell the difference between social media posts that are false or misleading and those that are credible?

Test your news literacy fitness with this quiz, and exercise your right to be well-informed.

At First Draft, our mission is to protect communities from harmful misinformation. We work to empower society with the knowledge, understanding, and tools needed to outsmart false and misleading information.

Fact-checking journalism is the heart of PolitiFact. Our core principles are independence, transparency, fairness, thorough reporting and clear writing. The reason we publish is to give citizens the information they need to govern themselves in a democracy.

When misinformation obscures the truth and readers don’t know what to trust, Snopes’ fact-checking and original, investigative reporting lights the way to evidence-based and contextualized analysis. We always link to and document our sources so readers are empowered to do independent research and make up their own minds.

Bug Bytes, the second graphic novel in CISA’s Resilience Series, communicates the dangers and risks associated with threat actors using social media and other communication platforms to spread mis-, dis-, and malinformation (MDM) for the sole purpose of planting doubt in the minds of targeted audiences to steer their opinion.

Readers follow protagonist Ava who uses her wits and journalism skills to uncover a disinformation campaign set to damage 5G critical communications infrastructure in the United States.

Real Fake, the first graphic novel in CISA’s Resilience Series, communicates the dangers and risks associated with mis-, dis-, and misinformation (mdm) through fictional stories that are inspired by real-world events.

Readers follow protagonists Rachel and Andre as they discover that a command center in Russia is using a network of troll farms to spread false narratives about elections to American voters. With the elections coming up, Rachel and Andre follow the trail of synthetic media and stop the cyber assailants from causing chaos, confusion, and division.

This is a series of videos by the creator of the SIFT method of fact checking Mike Caufield. This covers how to investigate online sources.