"have predicted" Certainly we live in an era of wide spread fake news, leading to all kinds of weirdness where President Hillary today watched the UK sink into

"have predicted" Certainly we live in an era of wide spread fake news, leading to all kinds of weirdness where President Hillary today watched the UK sink into the sea, Atlantis-style, as the promised inevitable result of the brexit win, etc. Taking an extreme grain of salt, the linked article implies at least one company owner thought it would be worth the free publicity to announce in public that he talked to the mayor of another town. Despite shrieking insistence from the fake news that the end of the world is at hand, the odds of California falling into the ocean any time soon are quite low.