I think it's interesting how the term "fake news" came about. It was originally intended to describe the Russian disinformation campaign over the internet, soliciting college students in St. Petersburg and elsewhere to open fraudulent accounts on Twitter and Facebook pretending to be residents in Western countries, but posting propaganda critical of the Ukraine government, NATO, and Western democracies.

But the "alt right" extremists in the US started co-opting the term, blasting social media with the phrase "fake news" whenever they disagreed with something. It wasn't that the news was fake (fraudulent) ... it was enough that they didn't like it.

The Russian Federation wants you to distrust traditional journalism. You know, the guys who risk their lives over there trying to report events in an objective manner. Russia wants you instead to believe their state-run media outlets, propped up by the government as a propaganda machine.

Now ask yourself, why the hell would you follow anyone in the US who acts like the Russian Federation, labeling traditional media as "fake news," while propping up some propaganda machine in its place?