Some ideas for student activities:

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/02/skills-and-strategies-fake-news-vs-real-news-determining-the-reliability-of-sources/

and http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/08/guest-post-practical-tools-for-teaching-news-literacy/

More on the mis- and disinformation (formerly “fake”) news-makers:

http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/11/23/503146770/npr-finds-the-head-of-a-covert-fake-news-operation-in-the-suburbs

Slate’s answer for finding fake news on FB:

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2016/12/introducing_this_is_fake_slate_s_tool_for_stopping_fake_news_on_facebook.html

Crummy sites:

crummy sites to use for evaluation

And

False, Misleading, Clickbait-y, and Satirical “News” Sources‘ by Melissa Zimdars

Fake news, reliable sources libguide from Nathan Rinne

Construct your own matrix:

Benjes-Small, C., Archer, A., Tucker, K., Vassady, L., & Resor Whicker, J. (2013). Teaching Web Evaluation: A Cognitive Development Approach. Communications In Information Literacy, 7(1). Retrieved March 6, 2014, from http://www.comminfolit.org/index.php?journal=cil&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=v7i1p39

Especially Appendix A

and: Alyssa Archer and Candice Benjes-Smal also developed  “Evaluating news sites: Credible or Clickbait?”   at http://www.projectcora.org/assignment/evaluating-news-sites-credible-or-clickbait

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An infographic of “A decent breakdown of all things real and fake news.” here: http://i.imgur.com/7xHaUXf.jpg

includes sources for verifying news: https://greenwichfreepress.com/news/darien-reference-librarian-shares-ways-to-spot-fake-news-click-bait-satire-79507/

A nice overview:

“Campuses, she said, will have to “either put our money where our mouths are and follow through on this, or accept that our students are not going to be as information- and media-literate as we believe they should be.””

http://www.chronicle.com/article/How-Can-Students-Be-Taught-to/238652