I think you would benefit from more research into fake news. As referring to "news" stories that are completely false and made up, the origin is mostly in the r

I think you would benefit from more research into fake news. As referring to "news" stories that are completely false and made up, the origin is mostly in the runup to the 2016 US presidential election where such stories were widely spread, mostly on facebook, and there is indeed evidence that they were mostly anti-Clinton and often had Russian origin.