Learn about Bias in Media, Find Better News Alternatives Here, & Educate Yourself about "Fake News"

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  1. 📰 📻 📺 Learn about Bias in Media, Find Better News Alternatives Here, & Educate Yourself about "Fake News" 📺 📻 📰
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  4. According to Pew Research "More than eight-in-ten Americans get news from digital devices", but it never specifies what news sources they're getting them from. "About half (53%) say they get news from social media, and a much smaller portion say they get news at least sometimes from podcasts (22%). Past research done by the Center has tracked the various ways Americans get news, both online and offline."
  5. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/01/12/more-than-eight-in-ten-americans-get-news-from-digital-devices/
  7. This article is a direct challenge YOU to break out of your media bubble 💭 and get your news from some different sources. Whether you are on the right or left of the political spectrum, I have tried my hardest to find news sources that will fit into your worldview. Although I believe getting sources _just_ from the right or left is overall detrimental to breaking that bubble, I sincerely hope this article will give you some much more thorough and alternative news sources that aren't sponsored by corporate or MSM (although I do have those listed in here to for the sake of brevity and sometimes they have breaking news stories you will want to watch live).
  9. So, turn off CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, CNBC & OANN! Try listening to some foreign coverage on what's going on in our world. You'd be surprised how much interest we bring to these foreign news channels. BBC, Al Jazeera, Deutsche Welle -- although they are state sponsored, you'll hear a little bit more neutral coverage of US politics than you will with the US corporate media. Plus you'll also hear information about people and places and things going on in other parts of the world than you would with US-centric news that makes up our major corporate news networks. I intentionally did not include RT (Russia Today) because it's basically Kremlin propaganda, as unfortunately, all Russian news sources are as they have been slowly taken over by the Putin regime. https://archives.cjr.org/feature/what_is_russia_today.php
  11. 👁️‍🗨️ How Reliable is Your News Source? Understanding Media Bias 2021 (League of Women Voters): https://my.lwv.org/california/torrance-area/article/how-reliable-your-news-source-understanding-media-bias-2021
  12. 👁️‍🗨️ How To Detect Bias In News Media (FAIR: Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting): https://fair.org/take-action-now/media-activism-kit/how-to-detect-bias-in-news-media/
  13. 👁️‍🗨️ The Media Bias Chart: https://adfontesmedia.com/
  15. If you find a image on Twitter or Facebook, copy that image and do a reverse image search in Google Images https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/1325808 or http://www.tineye.com/ and see if it's a widely shared image across the web. If you only see a few results from Twitter and other platforms, more than likely it's a fraudulent image someone made up in MS Paint or Excel. Also, if you see a new clip on social media, and you've never heard of the organization that produced it, Google/Startpage/DuckDuckGo it and see what it comes back with. Often you'll find they're nothing but Russian troll networks or extreme radical sites that have a clear agenda to mislead you.
  17. AllSides Media Bias Chart (Image): https://ibb.co/kymPNN3
  19. Some non-corporate media that you should be watching:
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  22. Leftish:
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  25. ⭐ Secular Talk - Kyle Kulinski's channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/SecularTalk
  26. ⭐ The David Pakman Show: https://www.davidpakman.com/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/MidweekPolitics - The David Pakman Show. A leftist show with a host that makes solid logical points and doesn't try and insult the other side
  27. ⭐ Democracy Now!: http://www.democracynow.org/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/democracynow - Democracy Now is huge news sources for situations going on in communities all over the country, many you might not even be aware of. Strictly leftist.
  28. ⭐ PBS Newshour: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6ZFN9Tx6xh-skXCuRHCDpQ A mix of leftish viewpoints and factual stories about the day
  29. ⭐ The Philip DeFranco Show (non-bias pop culture & Youtube news) https://www.youtube.com/user/sxephil - Phil claims not to have specific political affiliate (or won't admit to it), but I've seen him rip in to both R and D politicians. A lot of his news is about YouTube drama, so keep that in mind as well.
  30. ⭐ The Intercept: https://theintercept.com/ - Glenn Greenworld's Newspaper, who speaks at both socialist and libertarian conferences. His political ideology seems very mixed and and hard to pin down. But he is anti-corruption, anti-abuse of power, pro human rights, and so forth.
  32. Rightish:
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  35. ⭐ Reason Magazine: https://reason.com/ - Reason.com is the leading libertarian magazine and video website covering news, politics, culture, and more with reporting and analysis.
  36. ⭐ Washington Examiner: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/ - The Washington Examiner is an American conservative news website and weekly magazine based in Washington, D.C.
  37. ⭐ The National Interest: https://nationalinterest.org/ - The National Interest is an American bimonthly conservative international relations magazine edited by American journalist Jacob Heilbrunn and published by the Center for the National Interest
  38. ⭐ Deseret News: https://www.deseret.com/ The editorial tone of the Deseret News is usually described as moderate to conservative, and is often assumed to reflect the values of its owner, the LDS Church.
  39. ⭐ AL.com - https://www.al.com/ - Specializing in coverage of Alabama, AL.com also produces nation-wide news.
  40. ⭐ Conservative Institute: https://conservativeinstitute.org/ - CI was founded to provide high-quality news and commentary from a conservative perspective.
  41. ⭐ The San Diego Union-Tribune: The primary paper of San Diego, it offers coverage of southern California as well as the country’s top headlines.
  42. ⭐ The Wall Street Journal: https://www.wsj.com/ (articles are paywalled, but scroll down for instructions on how to bypass this) - WSJ online coverage of breaking news and current headlines from the US and around the world
  43. ⭐ Military Times: https://www.militarytimes.com/ - Military Times is your trusted, independent voice for news about service members at home and deployed around the world.
  45. Source: https://www.thefactual.com/blog/what-are-the-most-credible-conservative-news-sources/
  47. I am intentionally not including some conservatives YouTube channels because they don't have reliable information, are propaganda, promote lies such as anti-vax trends. This includes Ben Shapiro, Milo Yiannopoulos, PragerU, Lauren Southern, and others.
  50. Unknown/Unlisted Political Affiliation, but the channels look well made and appear to have good Content
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  53. ⭐ Duke University Department of Political Science https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpzKOKJY6zoSvw7Nxcm9wmA/videos
  54. ⭐ The Institute of World Politics: https://www.youtube.com/user/InstofWorldPolitics/videos
  55. ⭐ Exploring History - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyuAKnN3g2fZ7_R9irgEUZQ/videos "Explore historical and political topics with depth not found anywhere else. World history, American Politics, the History of Philosophy, Ancient History, Presidential Development, European History- I bring you the stories with the research to back it up. If you love history and politics, Political Junkie is for you. I'll likely focus on Political History/World History."
  57. My Own Personal Breaking News Twitter List
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  60. ✨ You can also subscribe to my Twitter list called "Breaking News" which has all sources of news that is breaking that instant and there is no way to put a spin on it. You can access it and subscribe to it here: https://twitter.com/i/lists/68998895?s=20 🐤 (kept curated, pruned and up to date with legitimate news sources for breaking news) Unfortunately, since the Twitter CEO change, you are no longer allowed to view people's list unless you are already a Twitter member, which is unfortunate. But here is a list of the members of my "Breaking News" List so you can see for yourself I've tried to get as much center and non-biased journalism, reporting and wire services. All contributing Twitter accounts to the list: https://twitter.com/i/lists/68998895/members 🐤 - the great thing about Twitter lists too, no ads! If you feel a news source should be added, please let me know.
  62. If you don't have Twitter, you can access it via nitter.net. Breaking News: https://nitter.net/i/lists/68998895?s=20
  64. Investigative Journalism
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  66. ⭐ AP Investigations: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-investigations
  67. ⭐ Reuters Investigations: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/section/homepage/
  68. ⭐ ProPublica: https://www.propublica.org/
  69. ⭐ PBS NewsHour Investigations: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/tag/investigations
  70. ⭐ Fox News Investigations (ugh, this is disgusting to look at with all it's completely braindead reporting. Try the other sources): https://www.foxnews.com/category/news-events/fox-news-investigates
  71. ⭐ CNN Investigates: https://www.cnn.com/specials/cnn-investigates
  72. ⭐ The Center for Investigative Reporting https://revealnews.org/
  73. ⭐ NPR Investigations: https://www.npr.org/sections/investigations/
  74. ⭐ The McClatchy Group: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/
  75. ⭐ NYTimes Visual Investigations: https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/visual-investigations
  76. ⭐ The Gray Zone (far left) https://thegrayzone.com/
  77. ⭐ The World Socialist Website - The Website of the Fourth International (far left - Trotskyite): https://www.wsws.org/en?redirect=true
  79. 👍 Ground News
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  82. There's also a great new service that is called Ground.News. See https://ground.news/about & https://ground.news/mediaopoly/our-methodology They have a great app which you can download. They sort news stories by biases, either right or left and center. I usually try and stick with the center. However, you can scroll to the right to see more right leaning news sources, and left to see left leaning sources.
  83. They also have a very cool feature called "BlindSpot" that shows you news that isn't getting as much coverage as it should. https://ground.news/blindspot
  85. They also have a new feature for Twitter called Mediopoly that rates Twitter accounts whether or not they are left or right leaning, which you can check out at: https://ground.news/mediaopoly
  87. Download their app! You won't be disappointed. It always shows breaking headlines of what's going on in the world and lets you choose how you consume your media how you want too - although I always recommend checking some of the right and left sources on a single story to see how they play it out.
  88. Android from Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.checkitt&hl=en_US&gl=US
  89. Apple AppStore: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ground-news/id1324203419
  90. Enter the code 7751578 under settings to get a free month of their premium service! (Doesn't ask you for CC or any info, it just gives you the free trial and doesn't nag you _too often_)
  92. 🌍 International Media Sources 🌏
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  95. Below are links to some international media sources, but I included them just for the fact that some of them stream live 24/7 and if you want to hear a breaking news story, it will often be the best place to turn, depending upon what part of the world it has happened in. It's very hard to bring bias to a breaking news story. It's just about what is happening right at the moment. However, you have to keep in mind certain things when watching breaking news, here is a list:
  96. Where's RT (Russia Today)? https://archives.cjr.org/feature/what_is_russia_today.php
  99. 👁️‍🗨️ The Breaking News Consumer's Handbook: https://www.wnyc.org/story/breaking-news-consumers-handbook-pdf/
  100. 👁️‍🗨️ Image Summary of Breaking News Handbook: http://imgur.com/OWJDFJM
  102. Here are some foreign news sources that have MUCH LESS bias towards America than American media does on itself, as well as hearing news stories from around the globe to stay informed.
  104. ⭐ Al Jazeera English: https://www.youtube.com/user/AlJazeeraEnglish Al Jazeera Livefeed 24/7 English: http://www.aljazeera.com/live/ or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgJtWREOXHA -- Main homepage: https://www.aljazeera.com/
  105. ⭐ FRANCE24 English: https://www.youtube.com/user/france24english - FRANCE24 English Livefeed 24/7: http://www.france24.com/en/livefeed or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwxuzl4ZrHo -- Main homepage: https://www.france24.com/en/
  106. ⭐ DW (Deutsche Welle) English: https://www.youtube.com/user/deutschewelleenglish DW English Livefeed 24/7: http://www.dw.com/en/media-center/live-tv/s-100825 or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yt3HsaIEhM -- Main homepage: https://www.dw.com/en/top-stories/s-9097
  107. ⭐ Euronews English: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSrZ3UV4jOidv8ppoVuvW9Q Euronews Live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmxIA8L3Xz8 -- Main homepage: https://www.euronews.com/
  108. ⭐ BBC News: https://www.youtube.com/user/bbcnews -- Main homepage: https://www.bbc.com/news - This, AP News, and Ground News are the only "breaking news" apps I have on my phone as apps. They are fast, get right to the point, and tell you what you need to know. I recommend this even if you aren't from the UK
  109. ⭐ BBC News World Service Radio [Audio Only]: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldserviceradio
  110. ⭐ Associated Press (AP): https://www.youtube.com/user/AssociatedPress -- Main home page: https://apnews.com/ - Yet another app I have on my phone for breaking news stories, the other is the BBC and Ground.News.
  111. ⭐ AFP (Agence France-Presse): https://www.youtube.com/user/AFP -- Main homepage: https://www.afp.com/en/news-hub The AFP has been around since 1835 as essentially a news wire service. It is a good, quality source of information that's trustworthy and well documented.
  112. ⭐ Reuters: https://www.youtube.com/user/ReutersVideo Reuters Live Video is a great source for unbiased news with their quick news briefs of only 20 minutes on their videos page. I recommend checking out their Breaking Views news feed that changes daily and gives you a good summary of the days events. Main homepage: https://www.reuters.com/ - Another oldie but a good. Reuters has been around since 1851 and has essentially been a wire service. Their main office is in London, but they have reporters in 200 locations across the globe.
  113. ⭐ Sky News (UK) Livefeed 24/7: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y60wDzZt8yg - Main Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/skynews Home page: https://news.sky.com/ - Mainly a UK based & focused news source
  115. 🇺🇸 American News Sources 🇺🇸
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  117. In no particular order, this is essentially the MSM of the US. Corporate sponsored, biased down a clear dividing line, and a clear agenda to focus on one platform or another. I am not including OANN here because I do not believe it to be a legitimate news source, but a propaganda arm the the GOP. That isn't to say it's all bad. There are many local affiliate stations that don't follow the agenda of their corporate overlords but attempt to provide legitimate news to the community or region it covers. However, some stations, especially those owned by Sinclair Media have an extreme right wing bias and use fear mongering tactics to keep you afraid and I also consider a propaganda arm of the GOP. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stations_owned_or_operated_by_Sinclair_Broadcast_Group
  119. The Big 4. These are the original news outlets started in the 20th century, first broadcasting by radio and now fully livestreamed 24/7.
  120. ⭐ ABC News: https://www.youtube.com/user/ABCNews - Main homepage: https://abcnews.go.com/ More info: ABC and all it's affiliates are owned and operated by one the largest media corporations on Earth, namely Disney. "The Walt Disney Company (DIS) has one of the most incredibly rich history, which led up to its position as the world’s largest media and entertainment company. The company is one the most well-perceived and distinct brands globally with a multigenerational audience. With the vast portfolio of classic Disney content enhanced with additional content from the studios of Lucasfilm, Marvel, Pixar, etc., as well as the acquisition of Fox which further builds on its IP strength, the company’s exposure is wide across various markets in media, streaming, theme parks and resorts and more. Disney maintains significant streams of revenue from four segments it operates in with the Media Networks segment accounting for the largest portion at 40% of total revenues in 2020." https://seekingalpha.com/article/4450008-disney-worlds-largest-media-company-becoming-even-stronger
  121. Just because it's owned by Disney doesn't necessarily make it any less viable a news source than anyone else, but with Disney being the "one the largest media corporations on Earth" means a lot. With their immense power over a huge portfolio of other media companies, they can essentially create news stories out of whole cloth and push them through the extremely large variety of media outlets they own. I do not have any direct evidence that they have done this, but when you're talking about the largest owner of media in the world, you would think this violates some kind of monopoly anti-competition laws. However, because of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 by the FCC, they essentially threw the rulebook out the window, deregulating any and all media ownership allowing huge monopolies of terrestrial broadcast of radio, TV, and internet and although the FCC claims they review ownership of media companies ever 4 years or so, they seem to have zero compunction in allowing these huge media conglomerates to exist ad nauseum. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Act_of_1996
  123. ⭐ CBS News: https://www.youtube.com/user/CBSNewsOnline CBSN Livefeed 24/7: http://www.cbsnews.com/live/ -- Main home page: http://www.cbsnews.com/
  124. More info: CBS is one of the few major news outlets in the US that is actually owned and operated by CBS. Although they have their corporate shenanigans going on, it is generally considered a mostly reliable source for most news, as with all MSM, any non breaking news should be taken with a grain of salt.
  126. ⭐ NBC News Livestream: https://www.nbc.com/live?brand=nbc-news&callsign=nbcnews -- Main homepage: https://www.nbcnews.com/ More info: NBCNews is owned and operated by Comcast, which Wikipedia describes as "Comcast Corporation (formerly known as American Cable Systems and Comcast Holdings) is an American multinational telecommunications conglomerate headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is the second-largest broadcasting and cable television company in the world by revenue (behind AT&T), the largest pay-TV company, the largest cable TV company and largest home Internet service provider in the United States, and the nation's third-largest home telephone service provider. Comcast provides services to U.S. residential and commercial customers in 40 states and in the District of Columbia. As the parent company of the international media company NBCUniversal since 2011, Comcast is a producer of feature films and television programs intended for theatrical exhibition and over-the-air and cable television broadcast, respectively." Although NBC was previously owned by General Electric (which didn't just make kitchen appliances but had major military contracts), this is no longer the case.
  127. They also operate MSNBC, the lefts answer to Fox News, which can be livestreamed here: https://www.msnbc.com/live (login to cable provide required). They do not operate a dedicated YouTube livestream. Also operated by NBCUniversal is CNBC which runs a livestream at https://www.cnbc.com/live-tv/ and again, a login to your cable provider is required to view. They do not have a dedicated YouTube livestream. Home Pages -- https://www.cnbc.com/ & https://www.msnbc.com/
  128. ⭐ CNN: If you post an article from CNN, you're more than likely going to get an "ugh" be called a shill or believer in fake news. According to a poll by the Economist & YouGov "The most politically polarizing media outlet is CNN, a cable news outfit that has been a frequent target for Donald Trump. Nearly two-thirds of Democrats (66%) rate CNN as trustworthy, compared to 11% of Republicans, a 55-point difference, larger than for any other outlet." [Interestingly enough, the most trustworthy source of new for ALL Americans is "The Weather Channel"]. According to the Media Bias Chart, CNN lands just slightly left of center, so the overwhelming disgust by the right against CNN seems to be more of a pro-Trump reaction to the news network in general. https://adfontesmedia.com/static-mbc/ However, if you find an article on CNN and want to post it on Twitter, it would be advisable to search for the headline on Google/Startpage/DDG and see if you can find another news source that has that news, as you will get a less adverse reaction from people.
  129. Source: https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2022/04/05/trust-media-2022-where-americans-get-news-poll
  131. Some of the rest of the major news outlets in the US.
  133. ⭐ The New York Times: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheNewYorkTimes -- Main homepage: https://www.nytimes.com/ - Despite what the right might say, this is one of the most important and media outlets in the country and provide critical counter points, as well as extensive investigative journalist to uncover the facts.
  134. ⭐ Associated Press (AP): https://www.youtube.com/user/AssociatedPress -- Main homepage: https://www.apnews.com/
  135. ⭐ Fox News Livefeed 24/7: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yjWDEqvkJc - Main Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/FoxNewsChannel (Fox News is obviously heavily right wing influenced & an arm of the GOP, but if you are looking for breaking news coverage on an incident that is happening right at the moment, it's an okay place to look) -- Main homepage: https://www.foxnews.com/
  136. ⭐ Bloomberg News Livefeed 24/7: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga3maNZ0x0w -- Main homepage: https://www.bloomberg.com/ - Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/Quicktake -- Consider by most on the right to be a very left wing news site (which I would have to agree on) I included it here because it an American MSM News source and does have some valid stories.
  139. Not news, but still interesting - NASA International Space Station Live Feed looking down on planet Earth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzMQza8xZCc
  141. ⭐ All Live Channels on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4R8DWoMoI7CAwX8_LjQHig
  143. 📰 Google News (News Aggregates and their Competitors) 📰
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  146. ⭐ Google News: https://news.google.com/
  147. ⭐ News360 - https://news360.com/home - News360 is a next-generation news reader that gathers news from more than 10,000 different online sources, and presents them in an innovative visual fashion, aggregating different articles and media, and letting you see all sides of a story.
  148. ⭐ CurrNews - A right wing alternative to Google News http://www.currnews.com/
  149. ⭐ NewsBlur (requires signup/login) - https://www.newsblur.com/ - Looks like a very interesting site. Describes itself as "NewsBlur is a personal news reader that brings people together to talk about the world. It shows you the original site and allows you to read stories directly off the site while keeping track of what you read. It also filters and highlights stories you like and dislike. NewsBlur has an active community of shared stories, published on each user's blurblog."
  150. ⭐ NewsAsFacts - https://newsasfacts.com/ - A very interesting project. You just get the headlines from news sources. If you're interested, you can click the link to read the full story or just scroll down and just get the bare bone headlines of what's going on. A quick and easy read to keep you up to date with the daily news. Pretty cool! 👍
  151. ⭐ Bundle - https://www.bundle.app/en/breakingNews - I'm not sure what the hosting country of this site is as there is some text in another language, perhaps from the Balkans or Czech Republic. However, this site claims to aggregate news from over 8000 sources and lists the top headlines under breaking news. Some of it is a weird combo, and they use Sputnik News a lot, which is a known Kremlin controlled state run media outlet. So, use this one with caution. It has a nice layout and some interesting stories, but don't believe everything you read on here.
  152. ⭐ Upstract - Another quick reader for the headlines from a variety of news sources. A pretty good, quick, conscience cross section of news outlets. It has a very annoying bar that goes across the entire website, however, if you are a user of uBlock Origin (which you should be) you can click on it, click on element picker, click on the bar, and the first part will disappear. Then do it again on the left over blank portion of the bar and it will be gone.: https://upstract.com/
  153. ⭐ BNO News (formerly @BreakingNews - Note: @BreakingNews on Twitter is FINALLY back, but it's run by MSNBC) http://bnonews.com/news/index.php/news/landing. You can also follow their Twitter for breaking news https://twitter.com/BNONews - I highly recommend you follow this account. It is also under my "Breaking News" Twitter list mentioned in this article.
  154. ⭐ AOL News - A news aggregate from good ole American Online. "You've got mail!" - https://www.aol.com/tag/breaking%20news/
  155. ⭐ Yahoo News - Like AOL News, nothing special here. Just a news aggregate from other sources - https://news.yahoo.com/
  156. ⭐ UPI - https://www.upi.com/ - Although the UPI used to be a major wire service in the US, competing with the likes of the AP and providing raw source material to many news and media broadcast networks, their hayday has long since past. I won't go through the history here, but the UPI operates some Twitter accounts and I have them on my breaking news Twitter list as they do provide consistent news, it is just aggregated from other sources
  159. 🕵️ Fact Checking Sites 🕵️
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  162. Because this list is so long, I've decided to add two asterisks to sites I feel are particularly worthwhile for debunking rumors and fact checking all the BS out there.
  164. Have a question if the news story you just read or the social media post from your friend is real? That's a good start to becoming a media savvy news consumer! These sites look at suspect news stories floating around the web and try and debunk the lies told by the organization or person ASAP:
  165. ⭐ PolitiFact https://www.politifact.com/ - Fact-checking journalism is the heart of PolitiFact. Our core principles are independence, transparency, fairness, thorough reporting and clear writing. The reason we publish is to give citizens the information they need to govern themselves in a democracy.
  166. ⭐ FactCheck.org https://www.factcheck.org/ - We are a nonpartisan, nonprofit “consumer advocate” for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. We monitor the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews and news releases. Our goal is to apply the best practices of both journalism and scholarship, and to increase public knowledge and understanding.
  167. ⭐ Washington Post Fact Checker [BIAS ALERT] (Might require subscription to read, scroll to the bottom to download a plugin that will allow you to read news sources hidden behind a paywall below) - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/
  168. ⭐ Snopes https://www.snopes.com/ - When misinformation obscures the truth and readers don’t know what to trust, Snopes.com’s fact checking and original, investigative reporting lights the way to evidence-based and contextualized analysis. We always document our sources so readers are empowered to do independent research and make up their own minds. Snopes got its start in 1994, investigating urban legends, hoaxes, and folklore. Founder David Mikkelson, later joined by his wife, was publishing online before most people were connected to the internet. As demand for reliable fact checks grew, so did Snopes. Now it’s the oldest and largest fact-checking site online, widely regarded by journalists, folklorists, and readers as an invaluable research companion.
  169. ⭐ The Straight Dope https://www.straightdope.com - Fighting ignorance since 1973. (It’s taking longer than we thought.) How did the Straight Dope come to be? It all started in February, 1973, in the Chicago Reader, now a titan of alternative journalism but then … well, a skinny titan. The column appeared without fuss or fanfare. This was Cecil’s preference. He wanted to start off small and then expand. Just like the universe.
  170. ⭐ Fact Check from Duke Reporters' Lab https://reporterslab.org/fact-checking/ - The Reporters’ Lab is a center for journalism research in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. Our core projects focus on fact-checking, but we also do occasional research about trust in the news media and other topics. [Down at the time of writing, so I can't really give it a fair assessment]
  171. ⭐ SciCheck (by FactCheck.org) https://www.factcheck.org/scicheck/ - FactCheck.org’s SciCheck feature focuses exclusively on false and misleading scientific claims that are made by partisans to influence public policy. It was launched in January 2015 with a grant from the Stanton Foundation. The foundation was founded by the late Frank Stanton, president of CBS for 25 years, from 1946 to 1971.
  172. ⭐ QuackWatch https://quackwatch.org/ - Quackwatch, which is operated by Stephen Barrett, M.D., is a network of Web sites and mailing lists maintained by the Center for Inquiry (CFI). The sites focus on health frauds, myths, fads, fallacies, and misconduct. Their main goal is to provide quackery-related information that is difficult or impossible to get elsewhere. To help visitors with special areas of interest, there are sites that cover autism, chiropractic, dentistry, multilevel marketing, and many other problematic areas.
  173. ⭐ Science Feedback https://sciencefeedback.co/ - Science Feedback is a worldwide network of scientists sorting fact from fiction in science based media coverage. Our goal is to help readers know which news to trust.
  174. ⭐ Health Feedback https://healthfeedback.org/ - Health Feedback is a worldwide network of scientists sorting fact from fiction in health and medical media coverage. Our goal is to help readers know which news to trust.
  175. ⭐ FlackCheck - Headquartered at the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, FlackCheck.org is the political literacy companion site to the award-winning FactCheck.org. The site provides resources designed to help viewers recognize flaws in arguments in general and political ads in particular. Video resources point out deception and incivility in political rhetoric. FlackCheck.org is funded by an endowment provided by the Annenberg Foundation to support the Leonore Annenberg Institute for Civics.
  176. ⭐ Climate Feedback https://climatefeedback.org/ - Scientists from around the world sorting fact from fiction in climate change media coverage so you know which news to trust.
  177. ⭐ Media Bias/Fact Check https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/ - Media Bias/Fact Check (MBFC), founded in 2015, is an independent online media outlet. MBFC is dedicated to educating the public on media bias and deceptive news practices. MBFC’s aim is to inspire action and a rejection of overtly biased media. We want to return to an era of straight forward news reporting. MBFC follows a strict methodology for determining the biases of sources.
  178. ⭐ NPR FactCheck https://www.npr.org/sections/politics-fact-check - NPR (national public radio) is an independent, nonprofit media organization that was founded on a mission to create a more informed public. Every day, NPR connects with millions of Americans on the air, online, and in person to explore the news, ideas, and what it means to be human. Through its network of member stations, NPR makes local stories national, national stories local, and global stories personal.
  179. ⭐ Unfortunately, Hoax Slayer shut down sometime last year. However, you can find more resources at https://counteringdisinformation.org/ or view
  180. Hoax Slayer on the Wayback Machine https://web.archive.org/web/20210228192917/https://www.hoax-slayer.net/ - Original description: Hoaxes spread misinformation, waste bandwidth, and lessen the effectiveness of the Internet as a communication tool. Hoaxes circulate via email, social media, blogs, online forums, and fake-news websites. Hoax-Slayer helps stop the continued circulation of these hoaxes by publishing information about them. Hoax-Slayer allows Internet users to check the veracity of a large number of hoaxes. Information about new hoaxes is added regularly.
  181. ⭐ AFP Fact Check https://factcheck.afp.com/ - Fact-checking by @AFP The world's biggest network of fact checkers covering more than 80 countries. Agence France-Presse (AFP) is a French state-owned international news agency headquartered in Paris, France. Founded in 1835 as Havas, it is the world's oldest news agency. AFP has regional headquarters in Nicosia, Montevideo, Hong Kong and Washington, D.C., and news bureaus in 151 countries in 201 locations. AFP transmits stories, videos, photos and graphics in French, English, Arabic, Portuguese, Spanish, and German.
  182. ⭐ HoaxEye https://twitter.com/hoaxeye - Hoax fighter and fact finder. Main tools: reverse image search and coffee. Operated by @JanneFI
  183. ⭐ International Fact-Checking Network https://www.poynter.org/ifcn/ - What is the International Fact-Checking Network?
  184. The International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) at Poynter was launched in 2015 to bring together the growing community of fact-checkers around the world and advocates of factual information in the global fight against misinformation. We enable fact-checkers through networking, capacity building and collaboration. IFCN promotes the excellence of fact-checking to more than 100 organizations worldwide through advocacy, training and global events. Our team monitors trends in the fact-checking field to offer resources to fact-checkers, contribute to public discourse and provide support for new projects and initiatives that advance accountability in journalism.
  185. ⭐ ufoofinterest.org https://twitter.com/ufoofinterest - Fact-Checking UFOs & Sky Anomalies. Debunking hoaxes, conspiracies, fake news. UFO_Hoax_Buster: @_scottbrando_ [Unfortunately the website at the .org domain is in Italian]
  186. ⭐ SkepticalRaptor https://twitter.com/skepticalraptor - Stalking pseudoscience in the internet jungle.
  187. ⭐ Skeptical Inquirer https://skepticalinquirer.org/ - Promoting scientific inquiry, critical thinking, science education, and the use of reason in examining important issues with our magazine, Skeptical Inquirer
  188. ⭐ Debunking Denialism https://twitter.com/debunkdenialism - Debunking pseudoscience and quackery with reason and evidence. Official account.
  189. ⭐ FTC: Consumer Information - Avoiding and Reporting Scams - https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/features/scam-alerts = The latest scam alerts and warnings for consumers from the FTC
  190. ⭐ Better Business Bureau: Scam Alerts https://www.bbb.org/us/news/scams - The latest scam alerts and warnings for consumers from the BBB
  191. ⭐ PR Watch - https://www.prwatch.org/ - A consumer watchdog group that focuses on: investigating and countering P.R. campaigns and spin by corporations, industries, and government agencies; reporting that promotes informed decision-making about products and policies; advancing transparency and media literacy; and promoting "open content" media that enable people from all walks of life to "be the media."
  192. ⭐ FAIR - Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting - https://fair.org/ - FAIR, the national media watch group, has been offering well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship since 1986. We work to invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater diversity in the press and by scrutinizing media practices that marginalize public interest, minority and dissenting viewpoints. As an anti-censorship organization, we expose neglected news stories and defend working journalists when they are muzzled. As a progressive group, FAIR believes that structural reform is ultimately needed to break up the dominant media conglomerates, establish independent public broadcasting and promote strong non-profit sources of information.
  195. 🔍 A List of Straight Down the Center Legitimate News Sources based on AllMedia's Media Bias Chart - https://ibb.co/kymPNN3 (Image) 🔍
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  198. ⭐ The Associated Press: http://www.ap.org/
  199. ⭐ Reuters: http://www.reuters.com/
  200. ⭐ Axios: https://www.axios.com/
  201. ⭐ BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation): https://www.bbc.com/news
  202. ⭐ The Christian Science Monitor: https://www.csmonitor.com/
  203. ⭐ MarketWatch: https://www.marketwatch.com/
  204. ⭐ Newsweek: https://www.newsweek.com/
  205. ⭐ NPR News: https://www.npr.org/sections/news/
  206. ⭐ Real Clear Politics: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/
  207. ⭐ The Hill: https://thehill.com/
  208. ⭐ The Wall Street Journal (behind paywall, look out below for how to bypass these paywalled sites): https://www.wsj.com/
  210. 📱 A List of Wikipedia's "Alternative News Source (U.S. Political Left & Right) 📱
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  213. These are the "alternative" news sources I would recommend people look at. Not sponsored by corporate advertising dollars, but instead by donations, pledge drives, some light advertisements, and so forth.
  215. ⭐ Alternative Media (Left): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_media_(U.S._political_left)
  216. ⚠️ Alternative Media (Right) - strangely enough, this doesn't have a straight forward list of US political organizations that are on the political right, but more of a discussion of all the problems with it. Take it for what it's worth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_media_(U.S._political_right)
  218. But push out of your bubble and check out some of the sources from both categories. Ground.news, as I mentioned up above is a great way to do this, but try reading some alternative media that isn't funded by corporate donations (like the MSM in the US I listed above). Be willing to go outside of your comfort zone, break some of your cognitive biases https://yourbias.is/
  220. 🚨 Right Wing Builds it's Own Echo Chamber - in an effort to combat the tech giants that dominate the general population, figures on the right (and unfortunately alt-right, far right and neo fascist) have created alternatives to the social media giants and they are attracting a large population. Sadly, this just turns into an echo chamber for the same viewpoints to be shared and reinforced without any fact checking, checking references, sources, peer reviewed studies, and so forth. So whether your political inclination is on the left or right, BREAK that echo chamber and be willing to think outside your hivemind bubble. https://www.axios.com/conservative-social-media-crypto-publishing-internet-56a77cbd-89c6-480a-a8a4-6092b7eea481.html (Axios)
  222. 📻 Other News Sources Both Domestic and International that Really Don't Fit in Any particular categories. 📻
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  224. ⭐ Voice of America: https://www.voanews.com/- Worldwide broadcast of news funded by the American government
  225. ⭐ https://www.scmp.com/ - South China Morning Post. Has some articles critical of the central authority of their pseudo-communist party, but still generally stays in party lines not to get in trouble, but presents the other side of the article as well.
  226. ⭐ https://www.rferl.org/ - Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty - This cold war relic still soldiers on producing news content, funded by the US
  227. ⭐ https://www.rfa.org/english/news/korea - Radio Free Asia - This is a news source mainly funded by the US to produce Anti-North Korea media for general consumption
  230. 💲 How to Bypass PayWalled Media Articles 💲
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  233. Bypass Paywalls Extension for Chrome, MS Edge and other Chromium based browsers like Brave and Opera: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
  235. Download this repo as a ZIP file from GitHub.: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome/archive/master.zip
  236. Unzip the file and you should have a folder named bypass-paywalls-chrome-master.
  237. In Chrome/Edge go to the extensions page (chrome://extensions or edge://extensions).
  238. Enable Developer Mode.
  239. Drag the bypass-paywalls-chrome-master folder anywhere on the page to import it (do not delete the folder afterwards).
  241. Mozilla Firefox (Custom sites not supported)
  243. Download and install the latest version: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome/releases/latest/download/bypass-paywalls-firefox.xpi
  245. This is legitimate software. I have scanned it with VirusTotal, Jotti's Malware Scan & URLVoid for you.
  246. master.zip: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/70cc62d0bf4f51a820531760d352412b731c3ad52bf3ded5bf1ad5696693511c
  247. https://virusscan.jotti.org/en-US/filescanjob/9xaturhh97
  248. https://www.urlvoid.com/scan/github.com/ (URL Void reports 2 false positive on Githuub.com
  250. firefox.api
  251. https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/364f592943cf495f84146f623ba5bb0effe22d7d9cdc18761b15799cc4d0eaaf
  252. https://virusscan.jotti.org/en-US/filescanjob/f9bzd69lth
  253. And of course, URL Void will show the same results since it's only scanning github.com
  255. Results: Both totally clean
  257. I know some may disagree with me, but if you have any other suggestions, or find a broken link HMU on Twitter @pogue25 or leave a comment below in the Disqus comment system below. You can find my email here http://scr.im/poguetwitter and I would prefer if you used a PGP key, which you can find here: https://bitbin.it/vuu4W8xG/
  259. Please be civil if you attempt to contact me or you will be immediately blocked.
  261. Learn about Bias in Media, Find Better News Alternatives Here, & Educate Yourself about "Fake News" © 2017 by pogue is licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
  263. https://tinyurl.com/FindBetterNews
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