The Mainstream Media Has Only Itself To Blame For The “Fake News” Epidemic

The mainstream media continues to freak out over the spread of ‘fake news’ on Facebook and other social media platforms such as Twitter and reddit. Hillary Clinton’s late campaign thinks this is a problem.
The Democrat party seems to think people with Facebook accounts are to blame for Hillary’s decision to ignore crucial swing states in the final weeks of the campaign, that likely cost her the election. But the media hasn’t bothered to ask why such sites gained traction. Our media has cultivated false news for years. Understandably, people stopped caring about the ‘journalistic ethics’ the media claim to possess.
The CBS morning show, hosted by Charlie Rose, recently ran a segment on the rise of fake news, based on a story posted on BuzzFeed. The website claimed that Facebook users shared more ‘fake’ news stories than ‘real’ news stories by the end of the election.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on Nov 20, 2016.