Research Guides: COVID-19: Resources to Identify Misinformation

Identifying Misinformation

AP: Virus outbreak means (mis)information overload: How to cope
An article from the Associated Press on COVID-19 information overload and how to identify what is misinformation.
Health and Wellness Library Blog: Misinformation During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Tips for Evaluating Health Information and Sources for Finding Reliable Health Information
A blog post by Health and Wellness Librarian Dr. Dana L. Ladd about how to evaluate information about COVID-19.
HealthNewsReview
A great website to learn more about how to critically evaluate news stories. They stopped reviewing news stories in 2018 but their list of evaluation criteria on the website is helpful.
IFLA: How to Spot Fake News COVID Edition
Links to an infographic and information about how to identify misinformation. The site provides links to the infographic in many languages.
MedlinePlus: Evaluating Internet Health Information: A Tutorial From the National Library of Medicine
Sifting Through the Coronavirus Pandemic
A great tutorial to use to identify misinformation.

World Health Organization: Myth Busters
Use the Who Myth Busters page to check if something you heard about COVID-19 is fact or fiction. This is specific to COVID-19 information so is a great place to start.
Snopes.com
Fact-checking website. You can use to fact check all types of information in addition to health and COVID-19 information.
FactCheck.org
This site is political fact checking website but does contain some COVID-19 fact checked information.