I am teaching a class at Washington and Lee University today on news literacy.
We’ll be discussing fake news sites and I will be showing the students these links:
Lies, Damn Lies and Viral Content
Hyperpartisan Facebook pages are publishing false and misleading information at an alarming rate
How teens in the Balkans are duping Trump supporters with fake news
Snopes’ field guide to fake news sites and hoax purveyors
Facebook is harming our democracy and Mark Zuckerberg should do something about it
The Buttry Diary 
This link has been making the FB rounds lately: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2016/09/18/please-stop-sharing-links-to-these-sites/
And a follow-up:
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2016/09/20/answering-criticisms-of-my-post-about-crappy-liberal-news-sites/
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I read the story about the teenagers in Macedonia creating the pro-Trump cites with various outlandish and completely fake news. Could this election get any more depressing?
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