The current largest reasons for the spread of "fake news" are: 1) Fox network profits from doing so 2) Facebook Corp. profits from doing so Neither of those

The current largest reasons for the spread of "fake news" are: 1) Fox network profits from doing so 2) Facebook Corp. profits from doing so Neither of those two reasons are "information overload". You know how every once in a while, some email spam network gets shut down and all of a sudden, the global email spam volume gets cut in half? Just from one network? That's what would happen if Facebook and Fox were shut down.