> Even fact checkers are not immune to this and brand other news as true or false not based on facts but based on the political spin they favour. Could you giv

> Even fact checkers are not immune to this and brand other news as true or false not based on facts but based on the political spin they favour. Could you give an example? > There are a few patently false lies on the internet which are taken as examples of fake news - but they have very few supporters. How many do you consider "few"? I can go to my local news site and read a story about the novel coronavirus and the majority of comments below the article are stating objectively false facts. "It's just a flu" "Hospitals are empty" "The survival rate is 99.9%" "Vaccines alter your DNA" ...and so on. There is the conspiracy theory or cult called QAnon, which "includes in its belief system that President Trump is waging a secret war against elite Satan-worshipping paedophiles in government, business and the media." One QAnon Gab group has more than 165,000 users. I don't think these are small numbers.