Fake news is modern propaganda: In the Trump era, history repeats itself not as farce but as clickbait

A new article published in The Washington Post alleges that Russia was involved in disseminating fake news designed to get Donald Trump elected.

The article was based on research from two sources: One report, titled “Trolling for Trump: How Russia Is Trying to Destroy Our Democracy,” was published in War on the Rocks, an online journal focusing on matters of foreign policy and national security. The other was courtesy of PropOrNot, a nonpartisan research group. Each came to the same conclusion — that Russian officials deployed a mixture of spambots and human agents to generate and spread false information that would be favorable to the Republican Party.

These tactics proved extraordinarily effective throughout the 2016 election, according to PropOrNot. The group claims that fake stories created by Russian interests were shared more than 213 million times during the race.

You should have every reason to take these findings with a grain of salt....
http://www.salon.com/2016/11/29/fake-news-is-modern-propaganda-in-the-trump-era-history-repeats-itself-not-as-farce-but-as-clickbait/