Where Does Fake News Come From

[Smaulgld]

Fortune Magazine presents the insight - it doesn't all come from Russia.

http://fakenews.news/2016/11/29/fortune-not-fake-news-russian-propaganda/

[jbauer]

From Cnn?

[Smaulgld]

From Cnn?
MSNBC NYTimes, Washington Post,

[Carlybee]

I suspect a lot of it during the elections came from Super Pacs.

[CPUd]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abKEbP4P0jQ


Fake political news stories are all over Facebook, and there are plenty of gullible people and greedy page administrators to keep up this sad trend. This politics documentary takes a first look at what's happening with the epidemic of nonsense on Facebook.

[Weston White]

In a word, fake news derives from Fakenewsopia.

Fake news, comes from fake news--which is why it is called 'fake news'. :rolleyes:

[pcosmar]

Propaganda

derogatory
information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/propaganda
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/propaganda

and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda

And then there is Operation Mockingbird,,, and various installations of it.

it is a dank rabbit trail to go down again. I thought it known and understood here.

[Michael Landon]

The Onion.

- ML