Did your mother call you to tell you about that new miracle cure for Alzheimer's disease? Did your Facebook feed pop up with an article on a new pesticide that's going to kill us all? Did one of your friends breathlessly tell you that the president was going to pardon mass shooter Dylann Roof? You might have heard any or all of these stories, but there's one thread connecting all of them: THEY ARE NOT TRUE.
This guide is intended to provide an introduction to the issue of false information in the news. It will also provide tools and techniques that can be used to identify "fake news" and to develop media literacy skills. The ability to tell accurate news from false news is an important skill that you'll use for the rest of your life. This guide will give you insight in telling fact from fiction online.
Please feel free to share this guide with others. If you are a librarian or teacher, you are welcome to use this guide and its contents for your own purposes. It was created by KT Lowe at Indiana University East, with adaptations by Jaclyn Savolainen at Dutchess Community College. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Adaptations for this guide were made by Andrea Anderson at California State University, Bakersfield. 
