[newsgremlin]

The church and royalty were almost always intertwined, power invested by god into the crown for divine legitimacy and thus has the power to decide what is right and wrong. The clergy also had the skills and resources to read and write, something we take for granted these days, thus control information spread at the communion.

The thing about fake news is that it's only fake when proven to be so.

[blancheneige]

See my other response in this thread.

This is all very fuzzy, I was asking for concrete examples of this fake news monopoly.

Here are good counter-examples: the incessant libeling against the royalty at the time of the French revolution [1], or the distortion and propaganda surrounding the Boston massacre to taint the British monarchy [2]. Not saying this was morally right or wrong, but it contrasts with the assertion of parent poster.

[1] https://alphahistory.com/frenchrevolution/libelles/

[2] https://theamericanscholar.org/black-lives-and-the-boston-ma...