Too many pop-up ads on a news site mean you should be careful. The best way to stop it is to actually read articles before sharing them. Sometimes fake articles are started with nothing but a tweet. The same rules apply to both. Snopes is a website that proves when stories on the Internet are not real. Fake news sites often have links to stories about strange rumors or famous people doing wild things. Most real stories have plenty of other sources of information, too. If you spend a lot of time on sites like Facebook and Twitter, you have probably made one common mistake: sharing an article without actually reading it. An article on the fake ABC News site says a protester was paid $3,500 to protest Donald Trump. That would have been shocking because it could make the protests seem bigger or more popular than they actually were. The best way to stop it is to actually read articles before sharing them. The article claims that he approves of it, even though the article describes Snopes as unfair and inaccurate. According to a study released in June by a team of French and American computer scientists, almost 3 out of every 5 links shared on social media have never actually been clicked. They are very difficult to win. Fake news sites often have links to stories about strange rumors or famous people doing wild things.