These organizations seek to offer objective information.
The WayBack Machine: Part of the Internet Archive, the Wayback Machine is an archive of the internet, showing pages that have expired or been removed.
A link or url tells you quite a bit about where the information on the page comes from and who the intended audience is. The last three letters of a url (uniform resource locator) or link will tell you a great deal about who owns a website, who writes the content and what their purpose is.
| Top-level domain |
Abbreviation for: |
Who uses it | Url of example website |
|
.com |
commercial | commercial entities | https://www.amazon.com/ |
|
.edu |
education | universities and colleges | https://www.berkeley.edu/ |
|
.gov |
government | U.S. government | https://www.usgs.gov/ |
|
.net |
network | network infrastructure | https://www.slideshare.net/ |
|
.org |
organization | nonprofit organizations | https://www.sierraclub.org/ |
|
.mil |
military | U.S. military | https://www.marines.mil/ |
Newsguard, a website that describes itself as an "internet trust tool," offers a browser extension that scans websites and shows ratings of how credible they believe the site to be. Newsguard sends reports to the World Health Organization. How Newsguard's rates websites:
FactCheck.org, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, is a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania.
Media Bias Fact Check describes themselves as “the most comprehensive media bias resource on the internet" and includes 1000+ media sources in their database.
Politifact is a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others who speak up in American politics. PolitiFact is run by editors and reporters from the Tampa Bay Times . . .” *
Snopes has long been considered “the definitive Internet reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation.” *
Sunlight Foundation "is a national, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that uses technology, open data, policy analysis and journalism to make our government and politics more accountable and transparent to all.” *
The International Fact-Checking Network is a forum for fact-checkers worldwide hosted by the Poynter Institute for Media Studies. These organizations fact-check statements by public figures, major institutions and other widely circulated claims of interest to society.” *
*All descriptive quotes are from the websites they describe.
