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Disinformation, Misinformation and Propaganda

Do you feel overwhelmed by the amount of content you see on a daily basis? Are you unsure what to believe when it comes to current events? This guide breaks it down.

Quick Fact-Checking Sites

The Reporters’ Lab is a center for journalism research in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. Core projects focus on fact-checking, but also research about trust in the news media.

PolitiFact focuses on looking at specific statements made by politicians and rating them for accuracy. PolitiFact is run by the editors and journalists who make up the PolitiFact team. It is owned by the nonprofit, Poynter Institute for Media Studies.

Snopes’ fact-checking and original investigative reporting lights the way to evidence-based and contextualized analysis. Sources are documentd and linked, so readers are empowered to do independent research and make up their own minds.

A Project of The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. 

The only platform in Bulgaria dedicated solely to fact-checking, an initiative of the Association of European Journalists-Bulgaria (AEJ). 

The News Literacy Project, founded in 2008, is a nonpartisan nonprofit building a national movement to ensure that all students are skilled in news literacy before high school graduation, giving them the knowledge and ability to participate in civic society as well-informed, critical thinkers.

Credible News Outlets Accessible via Panitza Library

Panitza Library has access to the following credible news outlets online. If logging in from off campus or using the open net, make sure to go through the off campus access route. Contact Panitza Library, if you need help or are looking for a different publication. 

The Economist 

The Financial Times (Please make an account using your AUBG email.) 

The Irish Times 

Le Monde (in French) 

El Mundo (in Spanish)

The New York Times 

The Wall Street Journal 

The Washington Post 

Die Welt (in German)