News and Fact Checking Sites

Global links to International,national, local and hyper-local news, fact checking and library sites.

ALL YOU CAN READ

A large database of newspapers and magazines.

BUREAU LOCAL

An UK investagtive journalists website.

CHECK

Verify breaking news online.

CORE

We offer seamless access to millions of open access research papers, enrich the collected data for text-mining and provide unique services to the research community.

FACT CHECK TOOLS

Fact cheking tools from Google.

FULL FACT

Full Fact is the UK’s independent factchecking charity.

GLOBAL INCIDENTS MAPS

Live reports of incidents around the world including – forest fires, diesease outbrakes, aviation incidents, human trafficking, terrorism predictions and border sercurity issues.

HOAXY

Hoaxy visualizes the spread of claims and related fact checking online. A claim may be a fake news article, hoax, rumor, conspiracy theory, satire, or even an accurate report. Anyone can use Hoaxy to explore how claims spread across social media.” (source Hoaxy website)

HYPER-LOCAL WEBSITES DIRECTORY

A UK map of hyer-local news sites.

IN YOUR AREA

InYourArea aggregates all the latest news for local areas from news sites, blogs and social networks.

JUNK NEW AGGREGATOR

This tool for evaluating the spread of junk news on Facebook was built by the Computational Propaganda project (COMPROP) at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), University of Oxford.

LIVE LEAK

LiveLeak is a video news sharring website.

LUMEN DATABASE

“The Lumen database collects and analyzes legal complaints and requests for removal of online materials, helping Internet users to know their rights and understand the law. These data enable us to study the prevalence of legal threats and let Internet users see the source of content removals.” (Source: Lumen Database home page).

MIDASEARCH ENGINE

Matches results in over 1,000 UK National, Regional, Local and Hyper-Local news websites.

NEWS BLUR

NewsBlur is a personal news reader.

NEWSNOW

NewsNow displays breaking headlines linking to news websites all around the world.

PAPERBOY

World newspapers listed by country.

QUESTIA

Online research site.

Reddit bridges communities and individuals with ideas, the latest digital trends and breaking news.

News and Fact Checking Sites

A large database of newspapers and magazines.

An UK investagtive journalists website.

Verify breaking news online.

We offer seamless access to millions of open access research papers, enrich the collected data for text-mining and provide unique services to the research community.

Fact cheking tools from Google.

Full Fact is the UK’s independent factchecking charity.

Live reports of incidents around the world including – forest fires, diesease outbrakes, aviation incidents, human trafficking, terrorism predictions and border sercurity issues.

Hoaxy visualizes the spread of claims and related fact checking online. A claim may be a fake news article, hoax, rumor, conspiracy theory, satire, or even an accurate report. Anyone can use Hoaxy to explore how claims spread across social media.” (source Hoaxy website)

A UK map of hyer-local news sites.

InYourArea aggregates all the latest news for local areas from news sites, blogs and social networks.

This tool for evaluating the spread of junk news on Facebook was built by the Computational Propaganda project (COMPROP) at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), University of Oxford.

LiveLeak is a video news sharring website.

Matches results in over 1,000 UK National, Regional, Local and Hyper-Local news websites.

NewsBlur is a personal news reader.

NewsNow displays breaking headlines linking to news websites all around the world.

World newspapers listed by country.

Online research site.

Reddit bridges communities and individuals with ideas, the latest digital trends and breaking news.

Fact checking site.

News media resource.

Everything on this site is written by volunteers.

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