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In a nutshell, when confronted with a dubious claim...
-Check for previous fact-checking work
-Go upstream to the source
-Read laterally

Focus on the introduction and set of 16 bullet points to get an overview of this long article!

Authors Hunt Allcott and Matthew Gentzkow, NBER Working Paper No. 23089,
Revised in June 2017.

See Figure 2: Trends Related to Fake News on page 30 of this paper.