If you’re looking for an example of Fake News or Satire news sites, you might want to check out Real News Right Now:
http://realnewsrightnow.com/
It is an excellent example of how fake news and satire isn’t always easy to spot. While some of the articles are obviously very fake, others have been knows to fool folks in high places (I won’t mention names….) While I wouldn’t point kids to the site to browse (a few of the articles may cross the line as far as being appropriate for students), you could highlight particular articles for purpose of whole class discussion.
Another site you might want to explore in your discussions about Fake News and News Bias is https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/
It allows you to look at articles sorted by Bias. Of course evaluating for Bias can be tricky (see excerpt below) and the Internet can be a hard place to find “truth”, but giving students tools and examples might help them to be more discerning of the information they find online.
Excerpt from https://www.cjr.org/innovations/measure-media-bias-partisan.php
Google “media bias,” and you’ll find Media Bias/Fact Check, run by armchair media analyst Dave Van Zandt. The site’s methodology is simple: Van Zandt and his team rate each outlet from 0 to 10 on the categories of biased wording and headlines, factuality and sourcing, story choices (“does the source report news from both sides”), and political affiliation.
A similar effort is “The Media Bias Chart,” or simply, “The Chart.” Created by Colorado patent attorney Vanessa Otero, the chart has gone through several methodological iterations, but currently is based on her evaluation of outlets’ stories on dimensions of veracity, fairness, and expression.
Both efforts suffer from the very problem they’re trying to address: Their subjective assessments leave room for human biases, or even simple inconsistencies, to creep in.
