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Break the Fake: How to tell what’s true online
Tip Sheet
Critical thinking isn’t about doubting everything: it’s about learning how to find out what is true. Because only truth can Break the Fake.
Here are four quick and easy steps to find out the truth and share good information. Sometimes you only have to do one of these things, and most steps take less than a minute.
Using Fact-Checking Tools
Sometimes a single search can break the fake, if a professional fact-checker like Snopes has already done the work for you.
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You can use our custom search engine bit.ly/fact-search.
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If no reliable fact-checker has covered it yet, move on to Find the Source or Check Other Sources.
Find the Source
Whether you’re looking at a website, a photo or video, or a news story, what really …
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