Guides: Fake News and Disinformation: Fact Checking Websites and Plugins

Fact Checking Websites and Tools

These impartial sites endeavour to verify statements seen in the media. You can also utilize browser extensions to evaluate the validity of online media content.

PolitiFact
Fact checking site focused on American politics.
Snopes.com
A long-standing fact checking website.
Media Bias Fact Check
A website that rates the political bias of news media.
Reuters Fact Check
A fact checker from Thomson Reuters, an internationally reputable news agency that examines social media narratives and misinformation.
Truth or Fiction?
A nonpartisan website that checks for rumours, fake news, disinformation, misinformation, hoaxes, and more that are widely circulated on social media.
MediaSmarts Fact Checker
A fact checker from MediaSmarts, Canada's Centre for Digital Media Literacy.
AFP Fact Check
Part of the Agence France-Press (AFP), a European news agency, this department investigates dubious claims that circulate online. Their coverage is worldwide.
WHOIS (.ca)
Look up ownership and tenure information about a Canadian domain name. For websites ending in .ca.
WHOIS (.com)
Look up ownership and tenure information about a domain name. For websites ending in .com.
Washington Post Fact Checker
A fact checking site that is produced by an American newspaper, The Washington Post.
NewsGuard
An American news evaluation browser extension produced by impartial journalists.