Meh. I think you fail to account for the conversational drift in the meaning of fake news. The quick response was to the pile of pure click bait websites pushin

Meh. I think you fail to account for the conversational drift in the meaning of fake news. The quick response was to the pile of pure click bait websites pushing stories like pizza-gate, claims that Clinton was having interns murdered, and so on. After the election, I was writing to electors in the state I grew up in, and found they were actually re-sharing these kinds of stories on their Facebook pages. As a protective measure, the Breitbarts of the world responded by calling everything else fake news, and diluting the meaning of the term. Apparently they successfully persuaded a Chomsky fan that the term was meaningless?