3. Fact Check

Search for the information on sites that you know are credible. Factcheck.org Links to an external site. exists to help citizens debunk false stories. They even have a page dedicated to Fake News.

Be a detective. Look into names, numbers, locations, and document.

Remember this graphic from a few pages ago?

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The headline says New York City is going to ban hot dogs.

It's fake news. It doesn't sound like fake news, and it's published on a radio news station. So how do you know?

In this case, I checked factcheck.org. 

Here's their article:

factcheck nyc hot dogs

The truth is that New York city is not banning hot dogs. Citizens will still be able to buy hot dogs from all of the usual places: street carts, baseball games, everywhere! But who won't be buying hot dogs and other kinds of processed meats? The government of NYC, and that includes public schools. Just that little bit of information triggered writers to say that there'd be zero hot dogs left in New York City, which misled thousands of citizens.