You are worse at spotting fakes than you think.
Here is the fix.
Being suspicious is not a method. This site teaches one, and it takes about thirty seconds.
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Spot the fake
24 situations in four rounds. You rate your confidence before each answer, so at the end you see your accuracy next to your confidence. Most people find a gap.
Start the challenge MethodThe four moves
Stop. Investigate the source. Find the original. Trace the claim. What professional fact-checkers actually do, and faster than arguing about it.
Learn the method Quick testDo you believe this?
Two headlines about the same event. One would survive a check. Pick it, then find out exactly what is wrong with the other.
Take the test Myth-bustingTwelve things people get wrong
About misinformation itself: who falls for it, whether you can spot AI by looking, and why correcting people usually backfires.
Read the mythsGo deeper
Misinformation, disinformation, malinformation
The three words are not interchangeable. The difference is intent and truth, and it changes what you should do about a piece of content.
ReadExplainerWhy smart people fall for it
Being intelligent does not protect you, and in some measured cases it makes you better at defending a conclusion you already reached. The biases that matter and what to do about them.
ReadExplainerHow media bias actually works
Media bias is mostly not fabrication. It is selection, framing, placement and omission, and every outlet does it because there is no way to publish without choosing.
ReadExplainerAI content and deepfakes
Detection by eye does not work and detector tools are not verdicts. What still works is provenance: who published this first, and do they stand behind it.
ReadExplainerPropaganda and conspiracy claims
Propaganda mostly does not lie, and conspiracy claims are often built so that no evidence could ever count against them. Both are structures you can learn to see.
ReadExplainerScams use the same shortcuts
Phishing and misinformation exploit the same trust shortcuts, and the counter is identical: leave the frame you were handed and reach the source by a path you chose.
ReadWhy this exists
of US adults aged 18 to 29 get news from social media at least sometimes.Pew Research Center, fielded Aug 2025
of that group regularly get news from individual news influencers.Pew Research Center, fielded Aug 2025
of 3,446 students failed to consider that fossil fuel funding might affect a climate site's credibility.Stanford History Education Group, 2018–19
correctly identified a manipulated video, depending on the clip, while about half believed they could reliably spot manipulated media.Veriff Deepfakes Report, n=1,000, Feb 2026
The problem is not that people trust everything. It is that distrust without a procedure just makes you tired. Every number on this site names a source, a date and a sample size, because a media literacy site that asks you to take its word for things has missed its own point.