The True Story of Fake News: How Mainstream Media Manipulates Millions

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Just one week after the 2016 presidential election, when tens of millions of Hillary supporters were still in absolute shock that Donald Trump actually beat her◦— and while many Trump supporters were in a similar state of surprise since he was the long-awaited anti-establishment underdog◦— the term “fake news” became the talk of the town and quickly turned into one of the most loaded and controversial labels in America. It wasn’t just a topic that circulated in a week-long news cycle. It was an issue that got more polarizing and more complex as the weeks and months went on; and with seemingly every day that passed the ‘fake news’ conspiracy got deeper and darker.

Fake news stories have been around for centuries, although they had usually just been called disinformation, propaganda, yellow journalism, conspiracy theories, or hoaxes; but this modern incarnation was different. All of a sudden it was supposedly everywhere, and just cost Hillary Clinton the election.

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