ADPO 300501: Comparative Politics

BS Detector is a browser plugin based on a list of misleading news sites initially begun by Melissa Zimdars for her communications students, but blossomed into a public project as the US Presidential election in Fall 2016 became more influenced by misleading sites. Now a team of journalists, librarians, and scholars updates the list on which it is based. The tool provides a red warning banner both for websites and for news articles shared in social media.

Funded by the Annenberg Foundation, this site sets the standard for unbiased politics fact-checking.

Click on the camera icon in the search box to upload or link to a photo and perform a reverse image search. This search can tell you where the image is used on the internet and give it context.

Snopes.com is run and owned by David Mikkelson, and is supported entirely through advertising revenue. It began as a personal interest in investigating urban legends, and gradually expanded to encompass all kinds of claims made in online news sources.

Aggregates articles from different parts of the political spectrum side-by-side, so you can compare in real time how different biases operate.

Compare sample public news shares in blue-leaning and red-leaning social media feeds using this tools from the Wall Street Journal.