Identify three fake websites and three real websites and explain how to identify they are fake?
Fake Websites
- https://www.allaboutexplorers.com/explorers/columbus/
- http://www.dhmo.org/
- http://www.thedogisland.com/
Real Websites
- https://www.worldhistory.org/Christopher_Columbus/
- https://www.expedia.com/
- https://www.cdc.gov/
When looking at the domain names for these website, we can see that the two fake websites do not have https:// and are missing the (s) that will be a big identifier that they are websites to look out for because they are not secure. When entering fake website 1, just by reading the information provided about Christopher Columbus, there is a lot of inconsistent misinformation like how “Christopher Columbus was born 1951” and “died in 1906.” There are also no cited sources to back up the information that this website claims which we can see how real website 1 does it correctly while being an official organization that displays the author and his sources.