How to Fact-Check

Knowadays' How To Fact-Check is a self-paced, accredited online course that teaches the professional discipline of verifying information before it is published. You learn how to check facts, sources, statistics, and quotations systematically — the same skills newsrooms, publishers, and content teams rely on — and how to document your verification so it holds up to scrutiny.

In an era of misinformation, these are genuinely valuable skills well beyond media careers. The course is a natural fit alongside journalism and editing work, and it doubles as a rigorous media-literacy education for older teens and adults: how to interrogate a claim, trace it to a primary source, spot fabricated or misleading data, and tell reliable evidence from noise. Modules cover checking different kinds of content, dealing with data, and the practical workflow of a professional fact-checker.

Like other Knowadays programs, it is fully online, accredited for continuing professional development, and completable at your own pace. It is a paid course, with the fee including lifetime access to the materials and a certificate on completion. For a homeschooling family that wants to teach real critical-thinking and source-evaluation skills, or an adult moving into editorial or research work, it is a focused, practical grounding in how to know whether something is actually true.