educational tools

These tools offer training on the problems of propaganda and disinformation, such as the ability to spot and assess disinformation when it’s encountered in a normal news feed.  A few games also have recently emerged, offering to playfully test users in the art of recognizing disinformation.


Bad News

Bad News: A game that challenges players to spread fake news.

channel one quiz

Channel One News Quiz: A short quiz to test skills in spotting fake news stories.

Digital Investigative Guides

Digital investigative guides: Bellingcat’s “guide to guides” for digital forensics.

Fake News the Game

Fake News: The Game: Correctly distinguish between real and fake news headlines, and win (iOS only).

Fakey

Fakey: Indiana University’s game to teach media literacy.

First Draft

First Draft: A Shorenstein Center project offering information verification training modules.

JLI

Journalistic Learning initiative: Offers training, such as the Digital Skills Workshop, on journalistic standards.

Making Sense of the News

Making Sense Of The News: Stony Brook University’s 6-week massive open online course on media literacy.

Newseum

Newseum Media Literacy: A source of training and education aids for developing resilience to disinformation.

NLP

News Literacy Project: Short activities to test and sharpen truth discernment skills.

unesco

Unesco: A handbook for journalism training.