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The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania has created this site to help students learn to “cut through the fog of misinformation and deception that surrounds the many messages they’re bombarded with every day.” Lesson plans on the site deal with topics ranging from the amnesty of illegal aliens to the potential pitfalls of using Wikipedia.

Check out the “Straight from the Source” section where students can learn that not everything on the Internet is true. The authors of this site offer their insight as to which sites are “generally unbiased and which are not.” The three areas they look at are official government reports, non-governmental organizations that looks at the issues, and sites which advocate a particular stance or cause. The authors use a check mark next to the sites that they think are the best and an exclamation point next to the sites that they think students should be “wary” of.

Also included on the site is a dictionary of terminology that students may run across in the media and a section which gives hints to help students avoid deception. Lastly, an “Ask FactCheck” section allows visitors to the site to peruse answers to most often asked questions and a place where questions about politics and policy issues may be submitted.