A summary of the article 

The article I chose was about how Amazon fired all employees at the facility who failed to clock out after they were buried in the rubble of the collapsing building during the aftermath of a tornado. Lewis Hogan, a human resources executive at amazon explained  “If your time card does accurately reflect when you stopped working on that day, then you are stealing from this company, plain and simple,”. Another executive explained “It’s frustrating enough to lose a warehouse during the holiday rush. But it is especially disheartening to learn that as they were trapped beneath tons of twisted steel and concrete, some of our team members actually attempted to make personal phone calls to friends and family while still on company time. These employees have been terminated.” At press time, Amazon had reportedly ordered all warehouse employees who remained on the premises to leave immediately or face trespassing charges.

https://www.theonion.com/amazon-fires-employees-who-didn-t-clock-out-after-getti-1848214443

Steps taken 

The first step I took was verifying the source , I looked up the site “the onion” , where I had got the article . I found out that the onion only publishes satirical articles on international, national, and local news. Therefore I only had to take one step to find out that this story is fake , and that amazon did not actually fire the employees who did not clock out after getting buried in rubble.

Was it true or false?

This news article was in fact fake. While looking at this article I thought to myself wow this must be true, this seems like something that amazon would do , but after only one short Wikipedia search I was wrong.