Falling into the clutches of fake or fake news is easier than we think. The impact of the moment, the emotional state when receiving the news, the aunt who tells you or sends it by WhatsApp, the use of images with a certain veracity … everything is combined and influences the first moments when you receive a news, whether it is true or false.
Today we are surrounded by false and true information and this moves the world and influences the decisions we make. So it is better to be cautious, use common sense, critical thinking, and make sure the truth of a story than to be alarmed and share it.
As writer Mark Twain would say: ‘What causes problems is not so much what people ignore as what they know and is not true.’ And to prevent us from falling into the trap of fake news, we share seven sites and applications to avoid fake news.
FactCheck.org
FactCheck.org is a website that seeks to reduce the level of deception and confusion in American politics. They examine with factual precision what top American politicians say in television commercials, debates, speeches, interviews, and press releases. (What we do in Verified, but gringo version).
Snopes
Snopes is a research page on urban legends. It is one of the most popular sites in the world to break up lies, rumors, and fake news.
The Buloteca
The Buloteca is an instrument that tries to avoid spreading false news. There are people who spread them out of naivety, others do it out of bad faith. They fight against this ignorance and manually review the reports and the denials, to guarantee that they come from good sources. All true reports are published, regardless of ideologies or agendas.
#StopBulos
Virtual Operation Support Team better known as Virtual Operations Support Team, is responsible for feeding the #StopBulos section on its website. In this section they collect the fake news that appear on the Internet to curb its dissemination and confirm its falsity.
Hoaxy
Hoaxy views the transmission of ‘claims’ and checks related facts online. A claim can be a false news, a hoax, a rumor, a conspiracy theory, a satire, or even an accurate report. Anyone can use Hoaxy to explore how news spreads on social media.
Hunting Hoax
Cazahoax makes an analysis of hoaxes, doubtful or simply false information that is shared on the Internet in a viral way. The articles that are published in Cazahoax are studied looking for contrasted sources to assign a valuation that can be from false, true information or information with false elements and other true ones.
