In an age of misinformation, how can you tell what’s trustworthy on the Internet? The Webby Team is answering that question in this year’s Webby Talk: “Everything You Think Is True: How the Internet has fragmented our collective reality, and why that’s not (entirely) a bad thing.” (Learn more here.) From fake news to bots posing as humans, it’s important to know where your information is coming from. So we’ve put together a guide of 4 digital tools to help you vet your news, product reviews, and bot interactions like a pro.
Fakespot
2018 seems to be the year of #fakenews but what about fake reviews? Download the Fakespot app and Chrome extension to paste any link from Amazon, TripAdvisor, Yelp, and the App Store, so you can find out which reviews are real and which are incentivized.
Discover which news websites are both credible and transparent, and which are just fake with NewsGuard, the free plugin that uses a team of trained journalists—not bots—to verify thousands of news websites.
Never get trapped by a propaganda bot with Bot Sentinel, a browser extension and search tool that tracks “fake news” accounts spreading disinformation, and flags bots so you can tell the real from the fake.
Tired of seeing one-sided views online? Get the full scoop on a story with AllSides, a news service that provides you multiple angles on the same story, so you have the whole picture.
