Check for hoaxes on these fact-checking websites:

• Snopes
• Hoax-Slayer
• FactCheck
• PolitiFact

Activity:  Read this headline and fact-check above using Snopes.

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Do you believe this headline? Is it true? Did you see this in your social media feed?

11 Tools to Verify that Online Info

View these videos and read the articles to see how a person can create fake news, and earn money, too!

• Fake News: How a Partying Macedonian Teen Earns Thousands Publishing Lies
• We Tracked Down A Fake-News Creator In The Suburbs. Here's What We Learned

Questions for discussion:

• How much money can a creator of fake news earn per month? 
• Find an example of how a fake news story in one of the articles above reached the level of state politics. 
• How much responsibility lies with the reader? 
• How can readers protect themselves and refrain from spreading false stories?