Fake News may take many different forms, but the essential element is always that it is partially or completely false. It may be urban legend, rumor, badly sourced writing, deliberate misinformation, or intended as humor or parody. As an information consumer, it is your responsibility to evaluate news sources for credibility, authority, and purpose, both for your own information needs and to prevent you from accidently sharing fake news to others.
Source: University of Oregon Libraries
Text description of "SIFT: Evaluate Information in a Digital World" for web accessibility
For more on the SIFT Method, check out this blog post from Mike Caulfield, Director of Blended and Networked Learning at Washington State University Vancouver:
Often photographs are recycled and/or doctored to fuel interest and provide visual "proof" for fake news. Knowing how to do a reverse image search can help you identify most photographs like this.
Do a reverse image search to identify the creator of an image and find similar images.
TinEye Reverse Image Search TinEye is good at showing how long and how often an image has been available (or has been used online). You can also see how an image has been edited for use by different people online.
Seeing Isn’t Believing: The Fact Checker’s guide to manipulated video
Source: The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)