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Hands-on Fact-checking: A Short Course
- Poynter Institute
Hands-on Fact-checking: A Short Course is a Professional Development listing dated April 2, 2018, with both location and city listed as Poynter Institute; the course was created by the International Fact-Checking Network at the Poynter Institute and the American Press Institute, and funded by the Google News Initiative. Designed for college students as a self-directed course or as a resource for classroom instructors, the approximately 90-minute course includes lessons on identifying reliable sources in fact-checking, debunking viral misinformation, and deciding whether a statement is really checkable.