Along the same lines, I wrote about the same issue in a more contentious and direct way - in that Fake News can spread because a large portion of the population

Along the same lines, I wrote about the same issue in a more contentious and direct way - in that Fake News can spread because a large portion of the population are ignorant, and sometimes willfully so, to the point of maddening denials of reality like "I dunno maybe the Earth is flat." https://medium.com/@6StringMerc/a-case-study-in-the-fake-news-feedback-loop-e42e236eefd0 https://medium.com/@6StringMerc/a-case-study-in-the-fake-new...