[krapp]

> If you were paranoid, you might think that the 'fake news' push served two objectives:

>1. As a psyops to stop the potentially very damaging allegations against powerful senior Washington DC political operatives on the eve of an important election.

If you're referring to "pizzagate", if you were paranoid you might also think that was the psyop. Paranoid people think a lot of things.

>Both of these objectives have been successfully achieved however you perceive it.

I'm not certain that's true. Damage to the mainstream press hasn't been repaired, and the people who believe in pizzagate still believe in it, and it was covered by the mainstream media, albeit briefly and as an example of, ironically, the fake news phenomenon.