Instead of fake news we had urban legends and old wives tales -- and these stories spread for decades or centuries. Now the velocity has increased, allowing the

Instead of fake news we had urban legends and old wives tales -- and these stories spread for decades or centuries. Now the velocity has increased, allowing these stories to appear to have some concentrated influence on current events. Jump back before the web and Snopes and it was extremely difficult to even verify a story was fact or not. Facts usually meant going to a library and finding a book that was written years before. Even then, just establishing that the author's name was real was a long and very rough process. I agree, we have come a very long way and are much better off today. This is hardly a crisis, just growing pains.