SIFT

Find Better Coverage suggests to find sources that are higher quality - more authoritative, more recent, more accurate. You want to know if the claim a source is making is true or false.

You may stop after investigate the source if you aren't satisfied with the information you found.  However, you may want to find something closer to the originating source of a piece of information. Questions that may occur to you are 1) "Is this topic accepted by many people?" OR 2) "Is this topic a source of controversy?"

1. Trade Up from social media
   • Look at the information linked in Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, etc. What is the original source?  Does it say what the social media post claims?  
   • Some options - You may want to link to the original source or an article you find in Google News or Scholar
2. Reverse Image Search
   • Use Google Chrome to search for a photo to find out more about.  Ask yourself: Where did it come from?  What was the source?  Is it true or faked? What is the real story?
   • How? In Google Chrome, right-click on an image and then select "Search Google for image". Once you bring up an image search, you can change the search terms. Watch this 3 minute video about reverse image searching: https://youtu.be/LeOdDN3z9Mk
3. Use Known Fact Checking Website
   • See FactCheck, Politifact, or Snopes, The website are linked on the library's SIFT Method guide.

These websites seek to assess websites and topics.

• FactCheck.org

  A project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, this site monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases.

• PolitiFact.com

  Journalists and researchers from the St. Petersburg Times and Congressional Quarterly (CQ) fact-check the accuracy of speeches, TV ads, interviews and other campaign communications, and post their findings to the PolitiFact website. The site offers a "Truthometer, "a scorecard separating fact from fiction," for analyzing political claims.

• Snopes.com

  One of the oldest fact checking websites. It cover popular culture and other topics.