How can you tell if a website is fake news?

Although many people continue to take the fake news bait, determining whether a website is fake or not is frequently as easy as looking at the about page. This is especially true for websites that deal in satire. Here are several examples.

The Onion

“The Onion is the world’s leading news publication, offering highly acclaimed, universally revered coverage of breaking national, international, and local news events. Rising from its humble beginnings as a print newspaper in 1765, The Onion now enjoys a daily readership of 4.3 trillion and has grown into the single most powerful and influential organization in human history...