How best can we as parents, citizens and individuals help limit the spread of FAKE NEWS?

That's easy: Demand common-sense laws against lying on the news like honest countries have enjoyed for generations.

Because it's only common-sense to protect Free Speech from lying nonsense subverting, eroding & undermining it.

That's why sensible countries have had Truth-in-Journalism laws for as long as they've had media.

It makes no sense for the US to lack similar laws of its own when lying ignorance is literally unpatriotic & un-American:

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."

--Thomas Jefferson, US Founding Father, Author of the Declaration of Independence, and 3rd President of the USA.

“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”

–John Adams, US Founding Father, and 2nd President of the USA.

The US can't lie its way back to greatness when greatness is earned, not cheated.

So its only hope is finding an honest country with Truth In Journalism laws and enacting similar legislation of your own.

Luckily for the US, there's one of those nations conveniently located right next door to the USA for you to study and learn from:

'Should the USA adopt a Canadian-style law making it illegal to lie in broadcast news?'

'A Law Against Lying on the News - Why Canada has one and the U.S. doesn’t'

'TIL it is currently illegal to broadcast false, fake, or misleading news in Canada'

'Supreme Court of Canada ruling makes honesty the law for businesses'

'Canada named the country with the best reputation by global survey — again'

'Canada Named The 'Most Admired' Country In The World, Again'

'Canada named world's most well-respected country'

Why idiots tolerate fake news when they could be protecting themselves from it with sensible laws is a total mystery.

One look at how America ended up proves just how stupid & irresponsibly dangerous getting fooled by fake news truly is:

'America No Longer Matters'

'American image damaged globally'

'Is Trump Ending the American Era?'

'Label the U.S. the Failed State That It Is'

'US no longer considered a full democracy'

'The Rapid Devolution of the United States'

'America: The Proudest Collapsing Country'

'Trump's First Year: Everyone Hates Us Now'

'The US doesn't look like a developed country'

'USA: The World's Newest Third World Nation'

'Canada is a 'full' democracy, U.S. is not: report'

'Trump accelerating decline of US global influence

'U.S. Global Image Takes Another Hit Under Trump'

'Donald Trump Flushes Away America's Reputation'

'US has become 'third world country': Donald Trump'

'The U.S. Doesn't Look Like a Coherent Nation State'

'It's official: Trump has made the U.S. a global pariah'

'Trump is destroying America's image around the world'

'Will Donald Trump Permanently Ruin 'Brand America'?'

'A Plague Upon The World: The USA is a “Failed State”

'Trump is making America the laughingstock of the world'

'The U.S. is No Longer a Full Democracy. What Happened?'

'Trump's America is showing the telltale signs of a failing state'

'America falls short of being a full democracy for second year running'

There has always been and always will be fake news.

Didn't know we had any until the American President used it for his buzz word

We can only keep balance and be well informed by relying on real, professional, dedicated, fact based, quality, well educated journalists like we used to. This used to be pretty easy as almost all news journalism fit that mode, but tabloid trash/ infotainment and the sheer volume of everything and anything on the internet without any standards, and scripted alternate realities, propaganda, agendas, hackers, trolls, fake news, hoaxes, deranged bloggers, and posting bots has indeed thrown a monkey wrench into that, making it much harder.

So where do we find real non bot, professional, dedicated, fact based, quality, educated, journalism today...in the sources of record and the primary sources.

Every country, and most states and localities have these, they've been around the longest, often 100 years and more, have the most awards, most distinguished reporters. UK for example has the world BBC, The Times, The Daily Telegraph, Guardian. The US has the NY Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal. Each US state and city usually has its publication and TV news channel of record. For example in my US city I watch the NBC affiliate for local news, solid broadcasting and practicing journalism in the community since 1940.

You don't have to go old to go good either there's.... Time, Newsweek, Reuters, NPR, US News and World Report (all primary sources too), Bloomberg.

For other countries each of them have their primary sources/ sources of record. Then there is internet stalwarts MSN (Microsoft News), Google News, Al Jazeera World News (young but huge number of awards, reporters in every country, and more reporters in harms way than any other source). Just go for the quality that's always been and is still the quality today.

We need to teach our children some research and critical thinking skills. They should learn:

How to check sources of information

how to check their history of accuracy

How to detect biases

How to analyze the available facts

How different methods of persuasion work

A good education is essential to this. A good education is not just about learning facts, it's also about learning to think critically and analytically. If a reporter claims that a government official is a child molester or is running a kiddy porn ring, what are the facts? Does the reporter or the people he/she works for have an agenda or a bias? Bias is inevitable, but some sources are absolutely bent on sensational news and wrecking people's reputations. Christian research groups such as the Family Research Council has a Biblical agenda of enforcing virginity in teens and exercising parental authority. They print any information that backs up their beliefs and pretend that conflicting evidence doesn't exist. This is far from honest, but unless you take the trouble to find out what kind of organization they are, you're vulnerable to their propaganda.

Fake news, when it isn't a prank, is propaganda. A firm knowledge of history is an excellent defense against propaganda, as is a grounding in logic or philosophy. The world is a dangerous place. Arm yourself.

i dont think we can

Just teach them that they can't believe everything they see in the papers, magazines, on tv, and on the internet. Teach them common sense things like if an article has a question mark at the end of the heading, its unreliable. "Breaking News" is unreliable. If it comes from a website that is mimicking a legitimate news source, its fake news. If it comes out of Alex Jones' mouth, its fake news. If it's on CNN, its most likely fake news.

By tracking down all of the unreliable sources. and websites and shut them down or something