we examined fact-finding on the Internet and how a lot of "facts" are actually not substantiated with evidence and essentially untrue! In this assignment we will examine the fact-checking websites: www.snopes.com (Internet fact-checking resource)

www.politifact.com (Fact-checking journalism)

www.emergent.info (a real-time rumor tracker)

Consider for instance the following on Snopes: Do Videos Show Magnets Sticking to People's Arms After COVID-19 Vaccine? | Snopes.com The claim: Viral videos showed magnets "stuck" on people's arms after they received COVID-19 vaccines, purportedly demonstrating that the vaccines contained metal devices or ingredients.

The Rating: Conclusion of Snope's fact-checking - the claim is FALSE! After you check out these three sites, continue to the fact-checking scraper research website. Let's take a look at the following "Fake News Detection" site from the Discourse Processing Lab at Simon Fraser University.

Step 1) Use your browser and go to: Fake News Detection (sfu.ca)

Step 2) Scroll down to the "Scrape Fact-Checking Websites" section.

Step 3) Experiment with each of the three fact-checking website options. Click Download to retrieve a CSV (comma delimited/excel file). If you take a look at the CSV file(s) you download you can examine the results of scraping the articles (from an