The Onion is a fake news site. It is a satirical US news-site which shows odd types of news that wouldn't be even shown in real life. The website appears to be an official and trustable news site, but closer looks into the stories they publish make it lose it's credibility. It's stories are completely out of touch with real-life and most likely aren't even realistic.
The New York Times is a factual news site. It is the official news website of all things around the USA. The stories they publish, when fact-checked online, is completely real, the website appears as if it was a coloured newspaper.
I've taken two articles from both sites about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Both articles are about completely different parts of the conflict, but are written in a well-meaning fashion. The Onion had made a satirical one about Israel surrendering their territories to the Palestinians because they'd ran out of targets to hit in Gaza, which contradicts that of the NY Times' article about the cease fire ordered between Israel and Hamas.
The Onion's article is immediately fake if you watch news on the TV, or if you've tried to fact check it. However, the way they both wrote their articles appears very convincing, because of the amount of professionalism poured into both of these for different reasons. Let's just hope they aren't used as evidence against something.
There are many ways to figure out whether or not something is fake or real.
1. You can fact-check the news itself by looking for it online, or if you watch the news.
2. Check is the website has a registered URL, like .govt, .uk, .au and so on.
3. Read the content carefully. No one would make a news article about the amount of tables mass-produced each year.
4. Just because it sounds real and convincing, doesn't mean it's real. Like what was said earlier, fact-check it.
5. Upon entering, check the top-left of the search bar, and if it has "not secure" on it, it means it is fake.
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