People lost on traditional media outlets since sometime and they now only rely on social media to get their news.
So it is easy to attempt to influence the public with fake news and a question mark at the end. Buzzfeed ran a profile of a news website which used to write border line fake news and made a ton of money.
What about all the Washington Post and New York times articles with anonymous sources? How do you know that isn't all fake? Are we now only to blindly trust specifically whitelisted authorities that relies on unknown sources? Why keep playing around? Just put these unknown sources in charge of everything. Maybe the public should directly elect the people behind "anonymous sources say" since they largely determine the news these days and thus what people believe and who they vote for anyway.
So it is easy to attempt to influence the public with fake news and a question mark at the end. Buzzfeed ran a profile of a news website which used to write border line fake news and made a ton of money.