Sadly not everything we find on the internet is 100% true. There was a furore when Snopes decided to verify election statements - with a team of Democrat supporters. There was a fact-check of Snopes fact-checking, which found even Snopes was not impartial in this case.

A 2016 article gives the basics:

• Pay attention to the domain and URL
• Read the "About Us" section
• Look at the quotes in a story
• Look at who said them
• Check the comments
• Reverse image search

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