The world's intelligence agencies were wrong about Iraq's nuclear program, but this is hardly "fake news" on par with "Restore hair growth with this one simple

The world's intelligence agencies were wrong about Iraq's nuclear program, but this is hardly "fake news" on par with "Restore hair growth with this one simple trick". This whole "fake news" issue is one giant slippery slope. True fake news that damages someone is already actionable under our defamation laws. But what about facts being bandied about in the marketplace of ideas? Do facts counter to the current dogma become fake? Do we allow state or corporate curators to determine for us what the facts are? One only has to go to Wikipedia discussion pages to see how difficult that can be. I can't help but be reminded by Orwell in 1984, "He who controls the present controls that past. He who controls the past controls the future". Is controlling the facts we read what Orwell was warning us about? The only defense against fake news is an informed educated reader.