Working paper from the Stanford History Education Group on the results of a study comparing the web evaluation practices of professional fact checkers, history professors, and Stanford undergraduates.
Selected Fact-Checking Organizations
The following sites are drawn from Mike Caulfield's recommendations in Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers. See the full list here.
Use these sites to "check for previous work," Caulfield's recommended first step.
A project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, focusing on key U.S. races during election years and on Congress outside the election season.