[emodendroket]

> But, yes, between 2016 and today we’ve definitely leapt into the era of Fake News.

Have we, though? The evidence for "fake news" as a phenomenon qualitatively (or even quantitatively) different than chain e-mail forwards is, to my way of thinking, pretty slim.

[dogruck]

The phenomenon is as old as news. The terminology and hyper awareness is fresh.