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How To Detect Fake News With These Tools and Techniques

Through links to studies and reports as well as applications, journalism educators share several concrete tools readers can use to detect fake news. 
A critical thinking model is provided to show how using cognitive skills to think through content, analyze and make a decision as to what constitutes a fake story is the best method of detecting fake news.
However, there are other tools being created every day to combat this issue, like the Media Bias/Fact Check extension for Google Chrome, BS Detector, Fake News Check, Baloney Detector, Source Inspector and Fake News Blocker.
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